Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle Dave Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...
George Dana and Chet Sagenkahn were not at their best in the low board dive, but the former managed to carry off top honors with 89.53 points. Jim Curwen and Dave Stearns pushed Bob Schaper right to the finish in the 50 in 24.1, and these four points just about put the visitors out of their misery...
Playing their hardest during the entire game, both sides put an a thrilling spectacle for the 3200 fans in the stands. The Crimson passing attack had vastly improved since the McGill debacle. Twice during the middle period Dave Eaton's second line executed a perfectly set-up play, permitting Stacy Hulse to dent...
...basketball the Big Green lost four key men from the 1939 championship team--Bob Macleod Joe Cottone, Joe Batchelder, and Roger Dudis. The sextet will miss eight men, including its high scorers, Dave Walsh and Bud Foster, and its outstanding goalie, Wes Goding, from what Ed Jeremiah, coach, calls the greatest hockey unit ever to graduate from Dartmouth. The swimmers also lost several key men, including Julian Armstrong, best free-styler on the squad, Irving Stein and Bob Cushman...
...Billy Hull," in the local estimate, "was as rough as a porcupine." Trigger-tempered, 140-lb. little Billy had a friend, Alec Smith; two enemies, Brothers Jim & Dave Stepp. One day Alec Smith and Billy Hull were at the mountain farmhouse of a neighbor named Cindy Lovelace when the Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around...