George Cornell by them for talks with the Krays. Meetings were often held in pubs such as "The Grave Maurice". On 9 March 1966, Cornell and his friend Albie Woods entered the Blind Beggar pub, ordered some light ales and then sat upon stools next to the bar. At around 8:30pm, both men were approached by Ronnie Kray and a Kray associate, Ian Barrie; upon seeing him, Cornell smiled and said sardonically, "Well, just look who's here". As a warning to the barmaid and the few others in the pub, Barrie fired two shots into the ceiling, while Kray walked towards Cornell,
The Cornell Progressive (newspaper) controversy, and Cornell students launched a campaign to discredit the allegedly fraudulent March 2005 Student Assembly elections – both events influenced in large part by "TL" reporting and opinion. In the Spring of 2007, co-editors Shai Akabas '09 and Ethan Felder '09 launched a successful but controversial campaign to change the name of the publication to "The Cornell Progressive". The executive board voted 6-2 to amend the organization's constitution in March 2007. In 2005, "Turn Left" began to bill itself as "Cornell's premier political newspaper," signaling its editors' belief that it eclipsed the once monolithic "Cornell Review" in terms of