Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHESTER S. DAWSON Chicago...
Everybody in Dawson, Ga. (pop. 4,670) knew that 29-year-old Erle Cocke Jr. had come out of World War II a major with a chestful of medals, that he had been stabbed by a Gestapo agent, shot twice and captured by the Germans three times, and had finally been thrust before a firing squad and left for dead...
...whole passel of notables, headed by Defense Secretary George Marshall, Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, four state governors, 15 generals, two admirals and seven former American Legion commanders, jammed into Dawson to pay their respects to big Erle and watch a two-mile-long parade which included everything from fancy-gaited horses to drum majorettes who, on a chilly afternoon, wore more goose pimples than clothes...
Last week at the little (pop. 2,560) farming town of Dawson Springs, Ky., the 57th annual trials of the National Foxhunters Association were held with some 900 of the country's top foxhounds in competition. The unspeakables were an oddly assorted group ranging from pink-coated riders to gallused mountaineers. The uneatables were the sly red foxes that abound in the region. The full pursuit was a well-organized chase, not necessarily to catch the fox, but to find out which hound could best stand the gaff of the rugged, three-day test...
...Lowell-Winthrop game, the Bellboys scored first on the fourth play of the game. Dave Dawson blocked a Winthrop punt and ran the hall back 40 yards for a touchdown. Lowell tallied again in the first period when Lou Brizzo caught a 20-yard pass from quarterback Bobby Lewn to put the ball on the Puritans' 20. Brizzo then went off tackle for the score. Brizzo failed on both conversion attempts...