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...season, Standish came from behind on Wednesday to unseat the ex-league leaders, Lowell, by the close score of 35 to 34. This game, marked by the steady uphill fight of the Freshmen, throws the Intramural competition wide open, with a chance for any of the top teams to cop the laurels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDISH QUINTET TOPS LOWELL, LEADS LEAGUE | 3/30/1945 | See Source »

...Leave, a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood to 52nd Street | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Arthur Duffey was not "a minor but revered West Coast cop dodger" (TIME, Jan. 29), but one of our greatest sprint champions and a highly respected amateur athlete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...escape. But in the hours before dawn the shoeless prisoners began unlocking doors-with keys made from a wooden spoon and a toothbrush. They walked downstairs to the basement, crawled through a window, climbed into the blue police car and "took off like a P-38," while a startled cop banged away with his revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Like a P-38 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...minor but revered West Coast cop dodger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Like a P-38 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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