Word: clem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little late for basketball, but come spring there may be those student officers who would like to organize a baseball team to play some of the local college or service teams. Chief Clem is willing to do the coaching...
First notice to the Sun's staff of Evans' dismissal was in the masthead: Marshall Field appeared as both publisher and editor. His chief helpers, it appeared, would be experienced, 48-year-old Clem J. Randau on the business side, and hard-boiled Frank W. Taylor on the editorial...
Having heard many rumors about the accomplishments of the chief physical education specialists stationed at NSCS, your columnist thought it would be a good idea to obtain a firsthand report about these energetic individuals. He found that they were very amazing persons indeed. Chief Clem, the only chief in the Navy who pronounces "Idea" & "Idear," shares with Mickey Cochrane of Detroit Tiger baseball came the distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team...
...Tarzan pictures. You might have seen him fighting in the trees of under water in these films. He is also a qualified electrical operator and has thrown his Kleigs on the "This is the Army" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars" sets. He is, according to Chief Clem, an expert in skiing, judo, wrestling, tumbling. Re skiing, though, Chief Terwilliger says, "I'm the world's greatest enthusiast and poorest performer," but looking at his record, there are those who might doubt this statement...
...dream city editor, who came up the hard way. Unhurried, taciturn (but capable of awesome anger), he often takes on police rewrites between detailing assignments, bats out an Oxie between editions. Some of the staff's oldsters remark that since he quit drinking and became an active churchman Clem Lane has taken on a somewhat pontifical mien. The opposite is apparent in "Oxie O'Rourke...