Word: captain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive history of the Navy in World War II. What war at sea meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report...
...Captain Jeff Tootell, Don Trimble, and Jerry Kantner swept the shotput and Tootell and Eric Stromsted placed third and fourth in the weight behind BU's Black and Harvard's Rubin...
...weight throw will see BU's Irving Black and James Lang pitted against Crimson captain Geoff Tootell and Dick Rubin. BU's entries have both thrown farther than Tootell or Rubin, but were beaten by both these men in a weight throwing meet held here last week...
Houston, who is from Haverhill and 16 Quincy Street, was captain of the 1949 varsity football squad. He also wrestled heavyweight on the varsity in 1947 and was undefeated in 1948. This term the 24-year-old married veteran received the Francis Harden Burn Scholarship for his combined athletic and Scholastic prowess. He concentrates in Government and hopes to attend law school...
...Varsity captain Joe Fox won both the 50 yard freestyle and the 100 yard freestyle events to lead the team in points won. Steinhardt, besides winning the 150 yard backstroke, was starting man on the varsity 300 yard medley relay. Kinney, the only other varsity man to swim in two events, won the 440 yard freestyle and took a second to Bob Berke in the 220 yard freestyle...