Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With star hurler and captain Bob Leahy sidelined by a chipped elbow, MelCollard's mediocre Boston University nine are due for their third defeat of the season at the hands of Harvard's smooth-playing, slugging 1939 varsity batsmen on Soldiers Field today...
Leading the Red terrors is Lupe Lupien, with a six-game average of .423. Captain Art Johns is close on his heels with .417. Bob Fulton is next with .368, followed by Grondahl and Hoye with substantial .333 percentages to their credit...
Perhaps the best looking crews of the regatta were Bert Haines' two 150 lb. crews, stroked by Vince Balley and Bob Homans respectively. Although they were jumped at the start and had to overstroke their opponents by two beats, they came through with flying colors...
...Italian Ambassador and the Albanian Minister, Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Garner, Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, all sat down for dinner together one night last week in Washington. Such things are possible only at Gridiron Club dinners, where Washington newsmen play host and entertainer to the political great with song & skit...
...There were also speeches-off the record. Franklin Roosevelt as usual was the star guest, the virtuoso of ribbery. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft was presented (in person) as a Republican foil to the President. Bob Taft proceeded to make on-the-record news by making a sensationally poor speech. When he had finished, New York's Tom Dewey applauded, grinned. He shared his friends' certainty that, if speechmaking has much to do with it, Bob Taft will not be hard for him to beat for the Republican Presidential nomination...