Word: dailey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three and a half years during the late war, William Dailey, now 23, a blue-eyed, dark-haired, happy-go-lucky Irish-American, had plenty of opportunity to get acquainted with his favorite vehicle: the motorcycle. As a member of a U.S. Army reconnaissance group for a tank battalion, his job was motorcycle reconnaissance ahead of the armor. It was an all-out job with an understandably final objective. "If we came back," says Dailey, "they knew they could advance...
Obviously, Bill Dailey came back-with one wound, a .45 caliber slug in the face, suffered in training in Kentucky, and a confirmed belief that nothing quite equalled the satisfaction of riding and caring for your own motorcycle. About a year ago he turned up at TIME with his machine, a recommendation from the Associated Press, and a conviction that it was time we hired a motorcycle courier. Our editors, recalling the days when copy boys disappeared for hours on their way to trains and planes with editorial copy and pictures, were skeptical. Dailey talked himself into a job, however...
Yesterday's College-wide voting also elected John H. Carnahan '50 of Seagoville, Texas, and Matthews Hall, Patrick D. Dailey '50 of Dallas, Texas, and Thayer Hall, and Richard T. Guidera '50 of West-bury, New York, and Weld Hall as next year's Sophomore Class members of the Student Council...
Leading 42 to 39 with five minutes to go, the Yardling quintet succumbed to a Bruin surge led by Frank Mahoney and Ben Patrick and three minutes later was on the short end of a 46 to 42 score. Center Pat Dailey's two-pointer under the basket and high-scorer John Rockwell's foul shot with slightly more than a minute to play brought the Crimson to 45, but the crowd came to its feet in vain with five seconds remaining as Rockwell's one-hander slithered off the rim and the horn sounded...
Captain John Rockwell kept the strings swinging for 29 points and the high score of the night while six foot four inch Pat Dailey, the Texas tip-in man, accounted for the second highest total with 12 points from under the basket...