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...delighted, but not surprised, to read in "Young Man's Game" (TIME, Feb. 14) that "Sinsel didn't give up an inch." The Major Chick Sinsel referred to is my cousin, Major Frank Callaway Sinsel. He has been recommended twice for the Legion of Merit. The papers are rightfully filled with stories of first and second generation Americans fighting bravely for their country. But the Major's family has been fighting for this country since the first Callaway landed in Virginia in the middle of the 17th Century. His great-great-grandfather, a Virginia colonel of cavalry...
...Chick and I grew up listening to the Civil War exploits of his paternal grandfather who, at 80, was still outraged by his capture and eventual imprisonment in Libby prison for "six months and one day." The old gentleman never forgot that extra...
Even though he was trained to the minute and had not eaten solid food nor had a drink of water all morning, he registered slightly more than the 135-lb. mark. Chick Wergeles (rhymes with Hercules), Beau Jack's voluble little manager, let out a roar of protest. William Brush, of the Department of Weights & Measures, called it 135 Ib., maybe a slight bit over, but explained that the crowd around the sensitive scales would cause enough extra pressure to account for this...
Battle Bred. In a quiet moment of the noisy Gilberts affair, John decided to take a shower on the Liscome Bay, had just soaped himself when the little carrier was torpedoed. Naked as a new chick, he made his way through the shattered carrier to the flight deck. (The Liscome Bay was afire from stem to stern, sinking in a sea of blazing oil.) John jumped overboard. Badly burned, he was finally plucked out of the ocean by a destroyer...
...Tufts eleven, the two men to watch are Charlie Fortin and Chick Rutter. Wingback Fortin is the most powerful runner on the team and an excellent left-handed passer, while Rutter, the left half, is the Jumbos' best broken-field runner, as well as a deadly passer...