Word: clair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were Edward Czeklauski of Brooklyn, George Pucilowski of Detroit, Theodore Hakenstad of Bremerton, Wash. There were Frank Rebbillo of Providence, Zane Gemmill of St. Clair, Pa., Frank Christensen of Racine, Wis., Abraham Dreiscus of Kansas City. There were the older, but not better, American names like Ray and Thacker, Walsh and Eaton and Tyler. The war was closer. And it was getting Americanized...
...fortunate coincidence, just about the time Irish got basketball going at the Garden, a West Virginian named Clair Bee took over basketball coaching at Brooklyn's Long Island University. L.I.U. basketball teams have always been excellent, sometimes terrific; they have won the Invitation Tournament twice and played two seasons undefeated. Bee's boys, with their tremendous local draw, have been a solid anchor to windward for Irish...
...Buffalo, there was still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, and the St. Clair River from Lake Huron was clear of ice as far as Algonac...
...purpose of bringing great, but little-known motion pictures, the series will include "The Man Who Knew Too Much," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "Neighbors Under Fire," a British war documentary production, "Professor Mamlock," an anti-Nazi film, and "A Nous La Liberte," directed by Rene Clair...
...Among his classmates: Admiral William Daniel Leahy; Rear Admirals William Gunnell Du Bose, Harry Ervin Yarnell, Arthur Japy Hepburn, Orin Gould Murfin, Arthur St. Clair Smith, Clarence Selby Kempff. The succession in the Asiatic Fleet has been in the hands of '97 classmates since 1937, when Murfin took over, to be followed by Yarnell, then Hart...