Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every sport-minded Navy officer in Honolulu knew about "Chug-Chug" Williams. For three years the star of the Navy submarine base team, he was a big, wide-shouldered outfielder, who batted lefthanded, whaled the ball at a .350 clip in the cleanup spot. Last year, he helped his team win the island championship. When the team was all set to leave for San Diego to compete for the Navy championship, Chug-Chug refused to go. A chief petty officer got suspicious. Two days later, Chug-Chug surrendered. He admitted he was Seaman First Class Louis B. Williams, sought...
Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...
...Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year-old Museum Director Perry Rathbone, who first thought of it while he was serving in a New Caledonia naval base during the war. "I was suffering from a strong attack of nostalgia," Rathbone explains. His idea was to "reveal the look and character of the mid-continent's waterways and of the life they created and sustained in the 19th Century...
Jesse James's posthumous pressagents; the ballad singers, have molded him to heroic proportions. So have most of his biographers. Lacking anything sounder than a dubious mixture of octogenarians gossip and Missouri legend on which to base their judgments, they have served up a dauntless, do-gooding 19th Century Robin Hood who carried the honor of the Old South in one hand and a parcel for the poor in the other. Few in the ballad audience wanted it otherwise. If the storybook Jesse was short on flesh and blood, at least he satisfied a secret, belly-warming...
...base and filler for the south access rotary and part of the dredging for the south abutment of the bridge were completed during the last 15 months by the J. F. White Contracting Company of Cambridge (Joseph F. White '14). The land on both sides of the river and the river bottom itself are thick mud, absolutely useless as foundation for construction...