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Reeves prepared at Exeter, where he was captain of last year's hockey team, and at Worcester North High School. In the three games which the Freshmen have so far played he has performed a stellar job at left defense. A six footer and well over 200 pounds, the newly elected captain, who is working his way through college, was considered one of the most likely prospects for the Freshman football team until he had to stop because afternoon practice interfered with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. PAUL'S MEETS UNBEATEN '44 SIX | 12/19/1940 | See Source »

...appears that, as has long been suspected in well-informed circles, all the long men have short beds and all the short men have long beds. The Bedroom New Deal plans to readjust this inequality in favor of the Forgotten Six-footer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AID FOR SIX FOOTERS WILL BRING REFORM OF BED THING | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...educated by Secretary of War Stimson. In Army headquarters in the rambling wartime Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue, they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier, General George Catlett Marshall. What they saw was a rangy, lean (182 Ib.) six-footer in negligently neat mufti, a field soldier with reflective blue eyes, a short, pugnacious nose, broad, humorous mouth, a stubborn upper lip. What they heard was a dry, impersonal voice, setting out with simple precision the necessities of the U. S.'s No. 1 modern military crisis, the work that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Military Brains | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Last week Tip Reynolds was under arrest again, this time in jail. Tip Reynolds came from Michigan. A husky, amiable six-footer, he went to Montana in 1902, when he was 20. A lineman by trade, he spent most of his life electrifying railroads in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pink Reporter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piety & Profits | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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