Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster had the Commuters all tied up in knots all afternoon, kept them outside the thirty, and threatened to score numerous times, but with three periods gone the game was still tied up. It took Tom Broidrick's too to finally rack up three points and put the game on ice with a few minutes left in the game, as charges with a perfect boot from twenty-he stole the march on Dick Harlow's five yards...
Arthur Siegel of the Traveler: "I pick Army by one touchdown. I saw the Cadets play last week against Cornell and their team will be better this week. They have two fast backs in Jere Maupin and Don Thompson and should rack up a 13 to 7 victory...
...Herald Tribune's, libel reporter is tense, grizzled, fun-loving Jay Racusin. Inquisitive Newsman Racusin, now 47, has been with the Herald Tribune since 1918. As a cub he was the first (and only) newspaperman to interview J. P. Morgan after World War I. Reporter Racusin (known as "Rack") gets plenty of other assignments that call for a passionate curiosity about the lives of his fellow men, a plain-clothes man's eye for significant details. Six weeks ago the Herald Tribune's lanky City Editor Lessing Engelking called Rack and gave him a special assignment...
...Rack went to the Waldorf-Astoria where Dr. Westrick had a three-room suite. There he discovered that Dr. Westrick rarely used it, kept it simply as an office in charge of a handsome young German woman, Baroness Irmingard von Wagenheim. So Rack tried to learn where most of Dr. Westrick's phone calls came from, found that they were coming from a telephone in Scarsdale, N. Y. Up went Rack to suburban Scarsdale and did some more undercover work...
...that called at the house where Dr. Westrick lived with his wife and children, looked up their owners, bit by bit pieced together Dr. Westrick's movements-and incidentally a lot of miscellaneous information about Dr. Westrick's guests. One day last week the Herald Tribune broke Rack's story. According to Sleuth Racusin, since May Dr. Westrick...