Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader, track dashman and baseball outfielder; Chuck Lutz, clever ball-handling basketball captain; Eric Cutler, stalwart distance man and captain of the swimmers; Robinson Stevens, captain and polished No. 7 man of the crew; Jack Wilson, crew stroke; Capt. Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves, of the golf team; and Dave Burt, tennis captain...
When LIFE'S close-up first appeared, one week last month, reactions among Negroes were generally friendly. Out of 16 letters in Earl Brown's mail, 13 (from Negro readers like President Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta University, North Carolina's Sportswriter Dave Hawkins) praised Author Brown for a good job. Said Joe Louis, according to a friend in Detroit: "I ain't read it yet. If he makes something out of it, let him make it. I make mine fighting...
...doubles player (with Jack Kramer) in the Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...
George Helden seems to be Bill Coleman's successor at the blocking quarterback role, with Hank Vender Eb, Dave Goldthwait, and Ted Lyman backing him up. Versatile Charley Spreyer will probably be the starting tallback, and talented Don McNicol will be a capable substitute. Bill Lyie, Ed Buckley, and Cliff Helman are other possibilities...
Brown (Pullman Porters and Maids Protective Association), Dave Beck (Teamsters' Union tsar, and force-extraordinary in Seattle politics). Said one hopeful MRA missionary: "If MRA can convince a man like Beck, it may do the same for Hitler...