Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Barclay handed in his final scouting report on Princeton Sunday night, but Valpey was unable to make any comment as yet on the caliber of the Tiger team...
...Mississippi's prison farm at Parchman, lanky ex-Robber William Frank Moody became a model prisoner. At 22, he busied himself with a correspondence course in radio repair, was soon earning pin money in the pen by fixing radios for fellow prisoners. Because his whole attitude suggested reformation, Bill was allowed to wear the vertical striped trousers of a trusty...
With odds & ends picked up for his radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For the last four years, using the call letters W5BNK, he has held early-morning gab sessions with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio...
Last week, though still in the vertical stripes of a trusty, Bill Moody faced a possible $10,000 fine and two years in prison for breaking FCC rules. But Bill was not much worried: for long-ago robberies and other matters, he still had some 40 years to serve...
...Whenever Bill Henry comes off the field he goes directly to the strategy table, where Jordan relays information to him. Whenever Henry has questions of his own, he talks directly to Sebo...