Word: alva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only once here since 1928, will be up, too: this is it Bruins' objective game. They already have a fine 14 to 12 triumph over Yale their credit, and in addition parlayed snowstorm and a stout defense to limit mighty Princeton to a meager 12 point Coach Alva Kelley's boys beat Rhod Island State, 20 to 12, for their other will...
...Alva "Red" Kelley, whose Brown team goes to Old Nassau next Saturday, speculated upon the near-impossibility of stopping Princeton's optional running pass. Representing single-wing power at its best, this play has Kazmaler throwing short to his blocking back, throwing long to an end, or running the ball. Kelley's only suggestion was to throw out a flanking end who would merely stand around and wait in the short-pass reception zone...
Football teams are always rebuilding. Herman Hickman is busy reviving the New Haven bulldog; Lloyd Jordan is "bringing back" Harvard football; Alva Kelley is resuscitating the moribund Bruin. These gentlemen, and, of course, numerous others, are striving to return their employee's teams to pedestals of former glory; they are all rebuilding...
...frequent caller at the White House, where he would go to pick up Lauretta at the end of the working day or converse with his good friend Donald Dawson, ex-personnel officer of RFC, who became the President's principal adviser on political patronage. (Mrs. Alva Dawson works at the RFC as supervisor of all the agency's files.) Merl was also available for occasional odd jobs. When 1948 campaign time arrived, Merl was on hand as a sort of fixer and super errand boy for Harry Truman's crosscountry speaking tour...
...Died. Alva Johnston, 62, oldtime reporter (The New York Times and Herald Tribune), one of the best magazine writers (The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post), contemporary biographer (The Great Goldwyn; The Case of Erie Stanley Gardner), 1922 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for popularizing the esoteric proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Bronxville...