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Pete Schears, the regular left halfback, has done most of the extra-point kicking for the Elis this year. But he has a turned ankle, and may not be able to play this afternoon. In that case he will be replaced by Vince Banker--a rugged line-backer--or Sherm Magidson. Tom Richey and Doug Treat share the right halfback slot...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Talented But Ineffective Freshmen Seek Victory Over Yale Here Today | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

...Sherm Boyd of Tabor scored twice within the opening three minutes to make the score 2 to 0. Bitsy Grant, who scored five goals, tied the game with two quick shots, at 4:32 and 5:52 of the first period. Grant added another at 11:40 of the period to give the freshmen a brief lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Pitching Excels in Vacation Wins; Freshman Lacrosse Team Nips Tabor, 8-7 | 4/20/1950 | See Source »

...dishwasher named José Nozario said that one day before the election he and other kitchen help were summoned upstairs for drinks, cigarettes and neckties-just like Sherm's customers. Said José: "I sat entranced. I never saw anything so pretty." Sherm advised them to vote against the union. They did. The day after the election, he gave them $100 apiece, and $500 to the head pot-wrestler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Garter. At week's end, Sherm was waiting to fight back, just as though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

This time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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