Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Addressing the C.I.O. executive board assembled in Washington, C.I.O. President Phil Murray said: "It is not for me to tell you what...
...smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago...
...Behind them were droves of Chicago's Irish cops and aldermen, and even a scattering of priests. They liked it best when Regan swung into The Same Old Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie," who was ill with laryngitis. The patrons had come expecting to hear Dorothy's leering Feudin' and Fightin', and got nothing but Phil Regan's clean Irish ballads. But they too kept calling...
Wisconsin's zealous little monthly Progressive, which died three months ago, came back to life last week, with best wishes from brothers Bob & Phil La Follette, but, for the first time since it was formed 39 years ago, without La Follette money and wearing no party's collar. Loyal readers had refused to let it stay dead. They had dug up more than $40,000 from their jeans, to go with pledges of $100,000 already obtained...
Crimson 145-pounder Dan Ray in the tentative listings is scheduled to match Charles Gardner although Ken O'Shsughnessy of the 1947 team is still at Columbia. Buddy King will be at 136 for the Crimson against Phil Temke while at 123 Lee Nutt will face other Ralph Vrana or Sasha Komsa for Columbia, in the lightest class, the Crimson's planing flyweight Dave Coombs meets Joe Pettinatte