Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Colonel George Edward Buxton, 68, who helped found the American Legion in Paris 30.years ago (along with Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Bennett Champ Clark and William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan); of a heart attack; in Providence, R.I. As a World War I battalion commander, Buxton persuaded Alvin C. York,* sometime conscientious objector, that a man could fight his country's enemies and still be a good Christian. In World War II, Textile Tycoon Buxton served as assistant director of the cloak & dagger O.S.S...
Died. Cecil Howard Lander, 68, British engineer who helped develop jet propulsion and Fido (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation), a device used in World War II to clear fogbound airports; of a heart attack, in Shrivenham, England...
Died. The Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman, O.S.B., 85, founder and longtime headmaster of Rhode Island's famed St. George's (Episcopal) School and of Portsmouth Priory (Roman Catholic) School; after a heart attack; in Portsmouth, R.I. A onetime Episcopal clergyman, Father Diman joined the Catholic church at 54, entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, returned to the U.S. to found (in 1926) the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory...
...levelled a specific attack on the United States for its "superior race hypothesis," manifest, he said, in "color-of-skin discrimination...
Although the Varsity was on the offensive most of the time, BLC demonstrated its veteran experience by scoring on almost every attack. Bill Merryman, assistant coach of the varsity, upheld the honor of the coaching staff by scoring twice...