Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bronzed, beauteous Alice Marble, No. 1 U. S. woman tennis ace, spent five days having her face "peeled" of its sunburn in order to sing professionally at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Her repertoire includes: I See Your Face Before Me, Two Sleepy People, This Can't Be Love...
Further honor was gained by Cliff Wilson '39, defensive backfield ace, and Ken Booth '39, Varsity tackle for the last two years, who were given posts on the second and third teams respectively...
Died. Lieutenant Lansing C. ("Denny") Holden, 42, famed World War flying ace. soldier of fortune, archeologist, architect and Technicolor expert; when a New York National Guard plane crashed near Sparta, Tenn. Also killed in the crash was another famed War flier, Lieutenant Raymond W. Krout...
Yale had two real threats. Once when their ace runner Al Wilson broke away from all but Macdonald to make a first down on the Crimson 37-yard stripe, and again in the early part of the fourth period when a succession of runs and Anderson-Snavely passes put the pellet on Harvard's 21. On both occasions the Crimson rose and held, the second threat ending when Don Daughters, playing his top game of the year, smothered Anderson before he could get off on an end-zone heave...
Yale coach Ducky Pond sent his two ace backs Bud Humphrey and Al Wilson, both slightly wounded, to view the clash and get a glance on what they will see more closely in two weeks. They were impressed...