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They all have a copy of the Morning Telegraph and then they buy a 50 cent "hot tip" card. After they pore over these for half an hour, they stick a pin into their programs and rush down to the window to slap two bucks on a nag that's in the race racket because it's too old to pull a milk wagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Players Pack Lincoln Downs | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...cozy setup, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn was a big man. He didn't belong to Joe Ryan's union but he ate at Joe's dinners, and his Greenwich Village mob ran the Chelsea District piers. Everybody knew Johnny Dunn was a killer, but nobody could pin it on him. During the war some small brass in the Army even tried to get him out of stir (he was doing time for coercion) because his services as a transportation expert were much in demand. Furious Fiorello La Guardia put a stop to that. The only mote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Date at The Dance Hall | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...pin by Captain Bob Claflin and a decision by Howie Houston saved the Harvard wrestling team from a shutout as Yale kept its long winning streak alive with a 20 to 8 victory Saturday on the Payne Whitney mats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet, Wrestlers Defeated at Yale | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Claflin, behind on points, pinned Jack Downey late in the second period and managed to evade Downey's pin hold for two minutes and 52 seconds of the third period. Houston was unable to fathom Duncan Waterman's unique style of wrestling and had to be satisfied with a decision, thus breaking a string of four straight pins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet, Wrestlers Defeated at Yale | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Sawyer, former star wrestler at And-over, has been undefeated in competition this year, grappling at 145 and 155 pounds for Coach John Chaffee's team. He got Harvard's only points in the Brown match with a pin of the Bruin 145-pounder and also pinned the Andover captain, although the Yardlings lost the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Wrestlers Elect Sawyer Captain | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

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