Word: walling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area. Both ends performed capably-Stretch Mazzone, who has developed over this season into an excellent defensive end, and Pete Leavitt. The backers-up, Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien, also worked commendably, but the big Bruin line found it too easy to open holes in the Crimson forward wall. For a while, Howie Houston looked great on defense...
There is no doubt about it. The English are the world's greatest humorists. In "Spring in Park Lane," they have taken a plot as old as Hadrian's Wall which has had all of its intrisic humor drained out over the centuries, and made it into a very funny motion picture...
...will have a majority of last spring's squad on hand for the international jaunt. Along with last years Captain and Rugby Club president, Joe Eaton, Callanan will have the services of Charley Whiting, Lou Travis, Tom Nuzum, Len Wheeler, Coloin McIntyre, Hollis French, Al Key, Al Green, Doug Wall, and John Densmore...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...
...antidote to grumpy Jesse's grim career. Author Horan fills out his last hundred pages with the story of another Pinkerton-pestered train robber, jovial Butch Cassidy, whose fun-loving Wild Bunch operated out of Hole in the Wall, Wyo. in the 1890s. Author Horan thinks Butch's story is "more colorful and daring," but most readers will disagree. Even debunked, Jesse James is still the feature attraction in any Wild West show...