Word: runner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, for the fifth straight year, by Motion Picture Herald. Runner-up: Betty Grable. No. 3: Abbott & Costello...
...Irey, who planted an agent in Al's Chicago headquarters. He laboriously compiled figures on Capone's tremendous take from his liquor operations, and from shaking down brothels and gambling joints. Al wound up in Alcatraz not because he was a thief, a murderer and a booze runner, but because Irey was able to prove to a jury that he hadn't shared his swag with the U.S. Treasury. One of Al's boys gave Irey's planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything is businesslike. Take The Enforcer [Gunman Frank...
Johnny Rockwell salvaged 18 import- ant points for the visitors to tie Chuck Whalen of Brown for runner-up honors. Frank Mahoney, top-heavy Brown center, was held to only 12 points by Ed Smith's fine guarding...
Sophomore riders copped the runner up spot by placing first in the remaining two activities. Gloria Rosenbaum '51 took the intermediate horsemanship, while in a "break-the-ballon" game, Charlottes Coe '51 kept the balloon tied to her waist and intact the longest...
...finishing 700 lengths of the Annex pool, the Junior Class "got back in time for the Yale game" to win the 25 points which moved them into first place in the intramurals. Marty Sherich '51, swimming for the sophomores, went 154 lengths to lead her class to the runner up position...