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...Chicago, after getting the details of one of the rowdiest rough & tumbles in baseball history, American League President Will Harridge levied a total of $850 in fines on four New York Yankees and two St. Louis Browns players. Browns Catcher Clint Courtney was "mainly responsible for the brawl," touching off a free-for-all with his spikes-high slide into Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto at second base. Courtney's levy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 11, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Laugh Factory | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...tells his Maple Leafs: "If you don't try, you don't make mistakes. And the guy who doesn't make mistakes is not worth a damn." Smythe's definition of a mistake is being clapped into the penalty box. His Maple Leafs, the rowdiest team on ice, last year broke a National Hockey League record by spending 669 minutes in the penalty box, and broke their own record again this season-by nearly 100 minutes. The Leafs also happen to be about the best hockey team on skates this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Springtime in Boston Garden | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Texas, rated third in the Associated Press poll after Notre Dame and Michigan, was likewise outrushed by a bruising Oklahoma team, but won. The score: 34 to 14. The hero: sure-armed Bobby Layne, whose throws figured in all of the Texas touchdowns. It was the week's rowdiest game. Oklahoma rooters threw pop bottles and went after the officials, who had to be whisked off the field in a police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Watch Michigan | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...mastermind the change of command, an old soldier of fortune who had fought through Chicago's rowdiest journalistic wars slipped into town. Ruddy, trumpet-voiced Walter Howey, prototype of the managing editor in The Front Page, had temporarily dropped his regular chores (supervising Hearst's two Boston tabloids with one hand and the American Weekly with the other) to help raise the steam pressure in the Herald-American's boilers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shakeup in Chicago | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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