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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfred Boley, counterman of the Meredith roadhouse where he claimed serving Gardiner and a shorter companion on January 28, examined battery rosters of the 97th New Hampshire National Guard, in an unsuccessful effort to identify the second man who called the employee "an old Leyte buddy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.H. Troopers Still Hunting For Gardiner | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...Notre Dame, which kept its first team in only eleven minutes against Iowa, and won, 56-to-0. The man the fast-blooming Irish depend on to knock out Navy this week is passing, running, kicking Quarterback Frank ("Boley") Dancewicz, who is also the deadliest tackling back ever seen at Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Term Report | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...Rise and Shine" makes you feel like doing just that. Simply making faces, Jack Oakie is sufficient for a full ninety minutes of bellylaughs. As a sleep-loving Boley Bolenkawicz, the Clayton College gridiron menace, Jack also sings, muddles over calculus and puffed rice, and runs the longest touchdown on record--several hundred yards in either direction against Notre Dame...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

Well-cast as a dumb, sleepy, semi-inhibited sophomore named Bradislaus ("Boley") Bolenciewcsz, Oakie mugs Clayton College to a national championship in a wacky welter of song & dance, romance and slapstick. With the greatest of ease he polishes off Yale, 82-to-0; Notre Dame, 6-to-5; Minnesota, 27-to-0. He beats Notre Dame with a last-minute touchdown when someone capitalizes on his fear of floods by yelling, "The dam has burst!" - frightening him the length of the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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