Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calls it "cellar-playing") worked in a New Orleans shipyard during the war. His last job: picking up nuts & bolts. Drummer Warren ("Baby") Dodds, a New Orleans alumnus, played drums for 20 years in Chicago, helped teach such top drummers as Gene Krupa, George Wettling, Ray Bauduc, Dave Tough, and quit steady work because it gave him high blood pressure...
This stunt sale was typical of a new radio program, Auction Show (Mon., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), thought up by chubby, energetic Dave Elman, who is full of such ideas. Elman, who has been in show business since he was six, already has one big network show, Hobby Lobby (CBS, Thurs., 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.), which has brought him $350,000 since 1937. (It features people with silly pastimes, such as inventing a pants-puller-upper, collecting baby elephant hairs, compiling unfunny jokes.) He has been trying to repeat Hobby's success ever since. Among his previous tries...
...Pacific, the 6th Marine Division boasted enough football talent to line up three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...
...complete the list at an even eight games. Boston University will be the opponent on September 24, the week after the Brown game, at Soldiers Field. Another game has also been scheduled for the B team: Worcester Academy will play here on October 27. Coached temporarily by Freshman mentor Dave McKelvey in the absence of head coach Walter Holman, the B.U. Terriers will field an all-civilian squad against the half-and-half Crimson team...
Some 13 men from Henry Lamar's 1944 informal squad will be back as the nucleus of this year's team, reinforced by three or four returning veterans from the 1942 formal team. Among the regulars on the forward wall will be Dave Mackintosh and Rod Perkins at the end positions, Chet Pierce at tackle, Howie Foster, Ellis Hodge, Teddy Woggon, and Mel Allen at guard, and Paul O'Leary at center...