Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...because one said to the other: "If I had a gun, I could have bumped him off." (Later, they were released when they explained they were just saying how easy it would be to outsmart the Secret Service.) While the President relaxed in his steam-heated box during the game (see SPORT), a special patrol of Air Force F-51s kept watch overhead, once zipped past a hovering light plane to warn it away from the big bowl...
...committee, he was a collector for a group of deputies and received $800 weekly to be split up. He said that $300 of the money came from the S & G Syndicate, $300 from the swank Sunny Isles Casino and $200 from the operation of bolita, the Cuban numbers game. Occasional raids were made on these establishments, but only after the management had been tipped off first. In the period, George estimated he took in about $50,000 and kept...
From the opening kickoff, the Middies behaved as if they had completely forgotten their own miserable season (won 2, lost 6), Army's 28-game unbeaten streak and the fact that they were 20-point underdogs in the betting odds. In the first half, a team that had been flubbing assignments all year held Army to exactly three yards by rushing. When Army took to the air, Navy defensemen swarmed over the receivers; before the afternoon was over they reached up and snatched three passes out of the confident reach of Army Left End Dan Foldberg, team captain...
...second half? Six times in the second half the Army crashed its way into scoring territory, once got as far as the three-yard line, but Navy held. Once Army downed Zug Zastrow behind his own goal for a two-point safety. But that was all. At game's end, there was Navy's fantastic notion right on the Scoreboard: Navy 14, Army...
...dressing room after the game, battered Navy players howled, chanted, hugged each other. It was a great day for the Navy. It was also a great day for round-faced Eddie Erdelatz, 37, coaching his first year at Annapolis. Said Eddie: "I've said all along, and still say, that the great thing is spirit...