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With the exception of his three top men, Willner, Rinaldi, and Ellis, Coach Douropulos will send out a green squad in an attempt to chalk up win number three. Men who will probably make the trip are civilians Bidwill, Hatton, Rinaldi, Smith, and Willner;-Frothingliam of the V-12; and Ellis of the NROTC...
Across the land last week, for six warm days & nights, a troop train rumbled. It was an old train, with no fancy name. To the engineers and switchmen, it was No. 7452-C. The men on board dubbed it the "Home Again Special," and wrote the new name in chalk on the sides of the old Pullman cars. In another war there might have been brass bands at every stop. But in this pageantry-less, slogan-less war, the train just rumbled on toward New York, through the big towns and the whistle-stops...
...difficult schedule confronts the Varsity for the remainder of the summer. The squad, however, has a most dependable pitcher in Wallace, and if the club can continue to show the batting power which it did in the opener, Coach Stahl's charges may chalk up an enviable record...
...Charley" were not so much with Author Twain as with Inventor Twain and Businessman Twain-who never had made a nickel except by writing and publishing. From the publishing house Twain was reaping $100,000 a year-and pouring most of it into his inventions. There was Kaolatype (a chalk process for engraving). It had been going nowhere for years. There was the Twain bed clamp, designed to keep babies from getting wound up in the covers. It was Editor Webster, then an infant, who proved it unpractical. Nothing ever came of the bed clamp. There was the famed...
...Germans the 21 miles of water between Calais and the chalk cliffs of Dover had never before seemed so wide. Now that all the usual channels of war information had been cut off, they got only what the Allies wanted them to have...