Word: douglis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, scholarly, bespectacled Virginius Dabney, 43, lives like a typical upper-class Southerner in a white frame house in Richmond, Va., with his pretty, vivacious wife "Doug," their three children and a maid of all work named Cora. Last summer, eyeing Cora enviously, a Richmond lady told V Dabney's wife, "If V would stop talking so much we might have some cooks in our kitchens...
...ferocious block by Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard* helped Quarterback Doug ("Hard Luck") Kenna sweep right end for the opening touchdown. It was Army's first touchdown against Notre Dame in five years, and it stimulated the killer instinct in the Cadets' cheering section. "Get more ... get more," they chanted, and the West Pointers poured it on. Halfback Glenn Davis, with All-America stamped all over him, carried the ball eight times for 83 yards, scored three touchdowns. As the avalanche rolled on, the Cadet rooters changed their chant to: "Hit 'em again ... hit 'em again...
...doesn't mean that we won't beat the Navy." Lieut. Colonel Blaik concentrated on speed and deception, continually talked "muzzle velocity" to his backs, who will run from the "T" more often than last year. Besides newcomer Dean Sensanbaugher, brilliant Ohio State back, West Point has Doug Kenna, its wonderful unknown; if he finally struts his stuff (he broke an arm in practice in '42, cracked a knee last year), Army's backfield will go places and do things. But Blaik still has his line - and Navy - to worry about...
...Doug and Bill. Since Halsey had been in the Honolulu conferences with President Roosevelt and General MacArthur, he was unofficially nominated as the likeliest commander for naval forces to cover MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The groundwork for this leapfrog move, had already been prepared. Incessant pressure by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Forces, said MacArthur this week, had apparently forced the enemy to withdraw his air forces westward from the Molucca Islands* to bases beyond Allied bomber range...
...good to see you, Doug, "said the President to the General he had not seen in seven years, despite all the turns & twists of the Pacific...