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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Akron, Ohio: Alfred Horberich '14, 507 Ohio Building; Atlanta, Georgia; December 27, Richard A. Stout '29, 226 Chandler Building; Birmingham, Alabama: December 26-27-28, Harrison W. Blair, 2619 Crest Road; Buffalo, New York: David B. Moseley '45, 70 Niagara Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Will Entertain During Recess | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...National-American Football League, with Bell as commissioner. All ten of the former National League teams will be in the new league. Of the All-America's seven teams, three-the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Colts and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the new group; three more-the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Dons and the Brooklyn-New York Yankees-will each merge with one or another of the 13 survivors. The players of the remaining team, the Chicago Hornets, will go into a common league pool. The new league will be divided into two divisions, National and American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please and so hit-or-miss in its shotgun methods adds a human element that is rare in modern-day comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Cleveland 31, Buffalo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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