Word: anson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raid sends the Japs scurrying and allows Kent to save his skin. One man escapes with him, his young orderly, Anson. The two men make a long hike to safety, but one night, with shells and men screaming around him, Kent puts his arms around Anson. Before Captain Kent's war is over, he has sunk himself in a degrading attachment, killed a man who threatened to expose him, and made a fainthearted try at suicide...
...JOHN ANSON FORD Los Angeles...
...Gehrig of the 19th Century. A first baseman for the Chicago Cubs (1876-96), Anson was a four-time batting champion, won five pennants as Chicago manager...
Unanimous Approval. The decision was approved just as unanimously by most of baseball. Frick, now 56 and greying, never realized his ambition of becoming a big league first baseman like his idol Cap Anson.* But even as an English professor (Colorado College), he never strayed far from the game. During World War I he worked with the War Department's rehabilitation division, then returned to a job as sportwriter for the Colorado Springs Telegraph. In 1919, after Arthur Brisbane saw some of his stories, Frick was called to New York...
...work at our lives and jobs with the earnestness with which we have been arguing about the lives and jobs of others. ANSON B. GARDNER JR. Engineering Section H.Q. EUCOM c/o Postmaster, New York City...