Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys-Victor Buehlman, 17, son of a commander, Charles Ryan, 17, and Michael Garvey, 15, both sons of petty officers-had been spending one day a week at a Cuban school, which is presumably where they picked up their sympathy for Castro. About three weeks ago they slipped away from home, eluded Cuban army patrols and reached the mountain stronghold, 125 miles from Guantanamo. There, according to rebel reports, they are now uniformed, submachine gun-carrying members of the Castro band, anxious for a crack at the Batista forces and worried only that they might lose U.S. citizenship for taking...
Squared off with U.S. attorneys intent on proving it an illegal monopoly, the International Boxing Club (James D. Norris, Pres.) caught a legal haymaker. Boxing may be a sport, decided Manhattan's Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan last week, but it is also a big and far from benevolent business, and promotion of championship bouts is monopolized by the I.B.C. in violation of the Sherman antitrust laws...
...Detroit's Olympia Arena. It holds exclusive contracts with almost all the top fighters. During the period of the Government's complaint (1949-53), it controlled the promotion of 36 of the 44 U.S.-staged championship fights. In their insistence on cornering championship bouts, concluded Judge Ryan, Norris and his pals "engaged in a combination and conspiracy . . . and were parties to contracts, agreements, arrangements and understandings in unreasonable restraint of [interstate commerce...
...I.B.C. still has its appeal, but Ryan's ruling fell inexorably into a fast-forming pattern of legal reasoning that portends basic changes in the structure of big-time sport. Only the week before, the Supreme Court had decided that professional football is subject to antitrust laws (TIME, March 11) and suggested that even big-league baseball is no longer immune...
BARBARA V. RYAN...