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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Distinguished." Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, the devil-may-care World War II hero who used 60-mm. mortar shells as hand grenades against the Germans, was there. So was Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, the Marine ace who shot 28 Japanese planes out of the sky and destroyed another 24 on the ground. A reformed alcoholic, Boyington is now a successful public relations man in North Hollywood, Calif., but in casual clothes and bow tie he still looked like an adventurer about to sign up with the Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne...
...Crimson creamed by the Crimson Printers. 23.2. It took a thrilling ninth inning rally, including a grand slam by "Ozark" Overton and a crucial catch by ace linotyper Frank Rogan of long-ball hitter Charlie Bevard's bid for immortality to finally new things up, but the Printers under Coach "Red" Downs...
Outstanding performances were not exclusively Harvard's however. Brown's distance ace Dave Farley turned in a remarkable double, whipping the Crimson's Eddie Meehan in both the 880 yd. run and mile. Farley ran a 4:09.8 mile, a stadium record, and a 1:54.3 half-mile...
...screamed Heinsohn when he reached the dressing room. "Let's have a party! Where's the champagne? Where's the jazz?" In a corner an exhausted Bob Cousy sprawled on a bench, holding court for reporters. In 13 seasons, the onetime Holy Cross ace had scored 18,973 points, added 7,786 assists, and proved that in a day of human skyscrapers a small (6 ft. i in.), agile and brainy player could become one of the greatest stars the game has ever known. Quitting now, to coach basketball at Boston College, he was going off still...
Coach Norm Shepard had to call on his ace starter Paul Del Rossi to stop the Engineers, who have won 2 of their 15 games this year, in the ninth. Del Rossi did the job masterfully, but he still didn't qualify as the day's pitching hero...