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...after the war, things didn't break too well for him-until he finally landed a job as a cop in Miami Beach. It seemed to be a job exactly suited for George's sharp-witted, broad-shouldered talents. After two years, he went up in the world, became a deputy sheriff and a right-hand man to the sheriff of Dade County (Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: Florida Songbird | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...stop for a light. If the second act slows thing's up a bit, Guys and Dolls emerges a thoroughly good, lively, lowdown musical. Using fleece-lined tough material of Damon Runyon's, it takes a full-in-the-face but indulgent view of Broadway's cop-fleeing dice players and their dolls. What results, if not always authentic, is raffish and picturesque, and though it seems ground out here & there, at least it is freshly ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...TIME, Feb. 27] tipped us off to the dangers . . . Yet we did too little . . . People forget. And Newsday, being people, and being concerned with other such matters as politics, war economy, etc., has not lifted its voice as loudly as we might have done. All we can do is cop a plea. The job of alarm we have done has only been fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newsday's Holiday | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Great was the joy of the throng when one of their own, George Messier, a practicing weightlifter, muscled past 17 other contestants to cop the crown and the handsome gold-plated statuette that went with...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...student strays off the road, Yale steps in long before Harvard does. "We spend an awful lot of time to keep guys from getting into trouble," explains a master. The Master, and not the dean, is the chief law-on-forcemeat agency. He may have from a campus cop that so-and-so has been2

Author: By John J. Back, Edward J. Coughlin, and Rudolph Kass, S | Title: Yale: for God, Country, and Success | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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