Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thin-faced, 51 -year-old Lou Holtz was born "in an alley" on Manhattan's lower East Side. Before he was born, his father (a Russian Jew named Bruce) had gone "fishing to Coney Island," was never seen again. Lou's immigrant mother peddled hairpins and shoelaces, met, married and went West with a man named Holtz. Lou grew up in San Francisco, got stage-struck while still learning fractions, at 16 started singing in a dingy little café. Elsie Janis heard him, told him to head for Broadway...
...Ross, playing number one for Harvard, lost to Tech's Gordon Chun, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, while Moe Levin of the Crimson trounced Tom Henson, 6-2, 6-2. Jack Hugus of M.I.T. defeated Milt Stearns, 6-3, 6-3, and Crimson man Bob Rayle lost to Bruce Mayer, 6-2, 6-0. Tow Ellis and Bill Mayleas of Harvard evened up the singles by defeating Roy Haddox and Tom Cummings, 6-1, 6-2, and 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, respectively...
Working on the experiments is Major Albert Bruce Sabin, Rockefeller Institute and University of Cincinnati researcher on poliomyelitis and other viruses. With a satchelful of serum, flies, cultures and swabs, he has shuttled for six months between the Trenton penitentiary and the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories...
...Marine Division, under Major General Allen Hal Turnage, formed the left flank of the drive north, and the Army's 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division, under Major General Andrew D. Bruce, formed the right. The ist Provisional Marine Brigade had mopped up Orote, whose airstrip...
...Southampton beachhead. Readers are likely to forget the long talks about politics. They will remember Anne's shock at seeing Marco at her best friend's wedding, the families crowding together in poverty after the suicides and heart failures of the crash. When rich Uncle Bruce Craven went broke, and was charged with having stolen $6,500,000, Marco was the lawyer on the other side. When Uncle Bruce asked his friends how his trial was going, somebody handed him a package. It contained a revolver and a note: "This is the gun that Albert used...