Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swede) Broberg was a unanimous choice at one forward position, and Joe Batchelder and Bob MacLeod walked off with the two guard posts. Giles (Scof) Scofield, Princeton Captain and center, and Jim Bennett, Cornell's Sophomore forward, were the other first team members selected by the mentors...
Charley Lutz was the lone Harvard representative on the second team, receiving three votes for guard and three for forward. He was placed at guard on the team. Tom Macioce of Columbia was selected as his running mate, while Walt Foertsch of Cornell and Pennsylvania's Tony Mischo won forward jobs, Roger (Moose) Dudis at center completes the five and became the fourth Dartmouth man to be honored on the mythical all-star squad...
...Forward--Albie Myers, Columbia...
...East of Eden, the best that can be said is that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years...
...rather than necessity. An itinerant tutor, salesman, artist's model, he served in the Russian army, saw the German occupation of Poland, weathered the Polish Revolution. Since 1922, when he published his first book of short stories, most of his work has been published in the Jewish Daily Forward, which also sent him to the Soviet Union as correspondent in 1926. Since 1934 Author Singer, his wife and 16-year-old son have lived in Brooklyn...