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Commander Morison will be doing for World War II what was done for World War I by Sir Julian Corbett, whose work is a classic on the subject of sea warfare...
...Jones, 68, 6 ft. 3, 220 lb., grabbed Meyer's coat lapels, shook him like an angry bear. Meyer's pince-nez shattered on the floor. Then Meyer, 66, 5 ft. 10, 186½lb., who took boxing lessons for two years from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, came up with a haymaker aimed straight at the Jones jaw. It missed-and other guests pulled the two heavyweights apart...
...prolific and successful writer of dog stories (Lad: A Dog;Buff: A Collie; etc.); in Pompton Lakes, N.J. He wrote stories about human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story. A jut-jawed, athletic heavyweight, who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries, he wrote eleven hours a day, six days a week for some 30 years. His kennels, Sunnybank, became the most famed collie kennels...
...Bulldog was unfortunate in the mile relay when sprinter Bud Talbott, running lead-off man, pulled on the first lap as he was chasing Larry Carbett, and no the Harvard quartet, including Corbett Ellis, McKechnie, and Slingerland ran to a mechanical victory...
...high hurdlers, while Steve Gifford will team up with him in the highs, and Tom Goethals in the low. In the dashes, Bill Trainer and Eli Berman will be on the starting line for the Crimson. The mile relay quartet will include Bill Ellis, Frank McKeehnie, Larry Corbett, and Chuck Eberhardt, who runs his first race for Harvard Saturday...