Word: capitans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number three match, Capitan Jim McKittrick, who dropped his first collegiate decision in over a year against Army Saturday, is favoured to win handily...
...from Amesbury, Massachusetts, received the Kelleher Memorial Scholarship, awarded for the first time in the memory of a Marine Corns capitan who was killed in action on Tinian. The Kelleher fund is included in the National Scholarship program...
...years, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, they had taken visitors to the railroad station and said: "Now just watch." At 3:35 the Chief rolled in, at 3:40 the Super-Chief, and at 3:47 El Capitan slid in off the main line. There were three famous streamliners, all emitting compressed air, Hollywood producers and blondes wearing dark glasses. But after June 2, damn-it-all, the trains would come in separately...
...Blackouts of 1943 it was packing them into El Capitan Theater even more solidly than it did as Blackouts of 1942. Almost as many people (1,541,000) have paid admission to the show as live in Los Angeles ; many of them have seen it four or five times (one man has attended 125 Saturday matinees and invariably writes a note of apology when he cannot be present). On an initial investment of $10,500 it has grossed for its producers and master of ceremonies, Old Vaudevillian Ken Murray, some...
Next day Ed Stettinius hired a hall (the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall) for $478.20, the bill to be paid by himself and team. Some 2,500 employes-clerks, decoders, secretaries and porters-heard the U.S. Marine Band toot out Colonel Bogey March and El Capitan and then watched as Ed Stettinius, with unflagging enthusiasm, presented his new assistants...