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Word: wynn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Corey Wynn's freshman tennis team will open its season against Exeter on the prep school's courts this afternoon. The Yardling B team, which easily beat Middlesex in its only start, will probably play Exeter's junior varsity at the same site today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Tennis Team To Play Exeter Today | 4/24/1954 | See Source »

...doubles, Gottlieb will team with Smith, while Heckscher and Place will comprise another pair. Wynn is not yet certain, however, which group will play first doubles. Edwards and Dwight Davis are also likely to play doubles today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Tennis Team To Play Exeter Today | 4/24/1954 | See Source »

...That's What I Mean." On the set of He Walked by Night, Webb met the technical adviser, a rotund, cheerful Los Angeles detective sergeant named Marty Wynn. "It rankles every damn cop in the country when they hear those farfetched stories about crime," Wynn said to Webb. "Why don't you do a real story about policemen?" Wynn forgot the conversation in an hour. But three weeks later Webb arrived with Radio Producer Bill Rousseau at the Los Angeles police academy, where Wynn was taking a refresher course in criminal law and rules of evidence. Webb asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...back seat of the police Chevrolet, listening to the radio's unemotional reports of crime and human weakness, watching every move of the two detectives. After hours, he asked for coaching. How did they frisk a suspect? How did they kick in a door? Once he told Wynn: "Talk like a cop." The detective bristled. "We don't talk any different than you do." "Well," said Webb, "what would you do if you had a suspect?" Said Wynn: "Why, I'd go down to R & I [Records and Identification] and pull the package . . ." Cried Webb: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...insult to Roosevelt, wore a wig. Stung by what she took as an insult to Roosevelt, she wrote Brown, demanding that he name his authority. Brown diplomatically suggested that her interpretation had been mistaken, explaining that he had been referring to a wig once worn by Ed Wynn in impersonating Roosevelt. In closing, he chided her gently for her mistake...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenberg, | Title: Widener Roosevelt Library: A Useful Monument | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

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