Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reason is simple: local barber shops, shoe-shine parlors, and newsstands operate as pick-up joints for a well-organized bookmaking syndicate. Bets are placed either with employees of these places, or with "walking agents" who make a point of being there at a certain time every day, to the tune of at least $1000 daily...
...openly are bets being taken and numbers slips "written," that a complete stranger can walk up to almost any cab driver and be directed to an "agent." If it is too early for the agent to make his rounds and pick up the cabbie's numbers, the driver will deliver it to him. He will in turn make the pay-off, if it isn't so large that it is worth his while to skip town and keep it for himself...
...impossible to make any comment whatever on the line play in the final scrimmage, other than to note that freshman tackle Dick Holdtmann was the one who hit punter Gil O'Neill and caused the fumble which set up the Red score...
After Baker left, the Dramatic Club, then the College's only dramatic organization, tried for a while to produce plays written by undergraduates. Without Baker the H.D.C. couldn't make...
Then in 1946 the Theatre Workshop was formed. Its members sold their own blood to make money and put on a series of memorable productions (including Saint Joan and Henry IV). But high production costs put even some of these shows in the red. By last year the H.T.W. turned pro and moved to Brattle Hall, leaving the debt-ridden H.D.C. as the College's only major serious dramatic organization until the formation of the H.T.G. under the Brattle Theatre's guidance this year...