Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EARL W. HUNTTING
...Army-Navy classic coming up soon is the chief topic of conversation among the serviceman now that the election is over, and as far as he can see it's a toss-up. "Navy has lost a couple of tough ones this fall. But I think Army's Earl Blaik is the better coach...
Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik is a patient, meticulous man; wartime West Point and its hard-studying, hard-drilling Cadets are right out of a football coach's dream. For six weeks Army Coach Blaik had carefully nursed his blessings, polishing his flashing T attack, proving his line, patiently pre paring for a payoff. Last week, suped-up to their mental and physical peak, the Cadets exploded against Notre Dame...
Died. Claud Bowes-Lyon, 89, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of England's Queen Elizabeth; in Forfarshire, Scotland. Worried by taxes, the spare, benign Earl once feared he would have to sell his Glamis Castle (pronounced Glarms), "the oldest inhabited house in Britain," long supposed the spot where Macbeth murdered Duncan and sleep...
Home after piloting heavy bombers on 25 combat missions over Europe, one day last spring Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C., Air Medal, etc., flirted his Flying Fortress up alongside a lumbering Braniff airliner (TIME, May 29). For this serious indiscretion he was court-martialed, sentenced to be cashiered as an example to other caper-cutting Army airmen. Appeals to General Henry H. Arnold, who was disturbed by the accidents resulting from such antics, got nowhere. Friends of Youree went to the White House...