Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This use of forceful tactics comes as a hangover from the days fifteen years ago when Jerry Owen was number one sparring partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited...
There was one other detail. When Boyle quit his law practice in 1949, Lithofold had gone right on paying its $500-a-month retainer to Boyle's ex-partner, Max Siskind. The payments to Boyle had totalled only $1,250. The payments to Siskind, to date, had totalled $14,000 and Siskind admitted that he has done only about five minutes' work for Lithofold in 28 months. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that Bill Boyle got a total of $8,000 from Lithofold, instead of the $1,250 he swears to. Last week...
...when he was assigned to cover the New York Yankees, hard-working Ford Frick kept his fellow sportwriters hopping to keep up with his early-to-bed & early-to-rise routine. He became a good friend and golfing partner of Commissioner Landis; in 1934 he was chosen head of the National League Service Bureau, which compiles the league's statistics. Within the year-a month before his 40th birthday - Frick was the National League president...
...other linemen are generally big, often fast, and without exception rough. Tom McCann is the outstanding end, and a frequent receiver of Maloy's tosses. His partner, Joe Mikutowicz, is only average. Starting guards George Foley and Chet Millett know the football picture well, but the surprise of the squad may turn out to be Jim Buonopane, an intelligent untrappable man who captained the freshmen last year. In the center of the line, Joe Gleason and Dick Murphy, both lettermen, are likely to be as tough as any the Crimson will meet. The Crimson-Crusader series stands at Harvard...
Cramer began his "career in teaching" shortly after he graduated from the college, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1930. He established himself as a partner in the Parker-Cramer Tutoring School and continued to take part in an operation involving 60 percent of the College...