Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upshot of these various instances of University influence is a feeling among undergraduates that they are not being treated as "Brown gentlemen," but rather as "babies...
...Saloonkeeper Sherman Billingsley, had gone pffft, according to Winchell. The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes. The upshot was earthshaking, as Walter wailed last week: "At one time he thought I was a wonderful guy. I haven't been in the Stork in seven or eight weeks. I may go back, but, of course, I might be told to get out. I feel like an outcast...
...income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Examined by an Illinois Athletic Commission doctor, Wrestler Joe was found to have a "cardiac contusion," i.e., damage to the outer layer of his heart, possibly suffered when, as Louis recalled, he cracked three left ribs in a recent grappling match in Ohio. Upshot of the diagnosis: Louis, if his disability proves permanent, can never again wrestle in Illinois, will probably be banned also in many other states taking notice of Illinois' action...
...48th U.S. Governors' Conference at Atlantic City, N.J. a set of baseballs autographed by members of all three of New York's major-league teams.* It was a nice pitch, but, like most of Harriman's Atlantic City efforts, it missed the strike zone. The upshot: at the end of the seventh inning of the big Democratic delegate contest, Harriman still trailed Front Runner Adlai Stevenson, 3-1. Nothing Harriman tried at the conference quite seemed to work. When he tried to switch-hit on the civil-rights issue ("I know and understand the South"), North Carolina...
...jazz combo playing his compositions and arrangements. U.S. jazz experts listened, found his tunes to be pretty as pops-fine fodder for jazz improvisations-and his arrangements forthright and thoroughly disciplined. They proclaimed Gulda's jazz some of the best they had ever heard. The upshot: Pianist Gulda was booked for a two-week engagement in June in Manhattan's jazz den, Birdland, and the Newport Jazz Festival (July...