Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaakko rates next Friday's meet with Rhode Island State and Connecticut as a tough match for the Crimson...
...Tough Break. In Sarnia, Ontario, Ronald Armstrong went to bed sound in limb, awoke a few hours later, felt a mysterious pain in his leg, found he had broken...
...White House, Harry Truman probably did not need any polls to show him that times were tough. He politicked like mad. Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey dropped by, and so did ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who offered all his help. National Chairman Bob Hannegan talked strategy, then hopped off for Los Angeles to twang a campaign theme. One Hannegan chord: the G.O.P. is "holding the picket line in a strike of big business against the consumer...
Once in a while Benny (whose most recent alias was Gamson) had to pay a $5 fine for shooting craps, but nothing ever came of his six arrests for suspicion of robbery. He had a little routine trouble with a tough local competitor named Mickey Cohen. One night he hammered Mickey's skull with a piece of lead pipe, but the quarrel never got really serious...
...plot gave Skolsky some trouble. The logical love interest for a sweetened-up biography was Jolson's third wife, Ruby Keeler, ex-cinemactress and Ziegfeld star who long since divorced him, remarried and retired from show business. Skolsky admits, "It was tough. We had to please Al, Ruby and ourselves. In a mild way, we tried to psychoanalyze Al and Ruby . . . and make ourselves believe it could have happened." Ruby was cooperative, accepted $25,000 but insisted that her name be kept...