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Nine men will race for Rhode Island, and six will represent Holy Cross. The Harvard team will field ten men from the squad of about fourteen, with the home team's hopes resting on Fred Phinney '43, Varsity captain, Bill Palson '44, and Tim Coggeshall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS WILL MEET R.I., H.C. | 10/16/1942 | See Source »

...historic sidearm delivery. The first pitch was low and inside, the second a called strike. Ruth popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases and called it a day. Old Barney had got only three strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortal Sideshow | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Editor in Ohio. Fourteen pre-war isolationist Congressmen won renominations. For the defeat of No. 15, the loudest of them all, Cleveland newspapers could claim a big red apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Primaries | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Fourteen college teams competed at the Coast Guard Academy Saturday and Sunday for the Trophy, which was offered by Captain Knud L. Mansen of the training ship Danmark. Formerly a floating school for Danish naval cadets, the Danmark has been stationed at the academy wharf and is new in the Coast Guard fleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachters Win Trophy Race | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Fourteen sure-enough Eagle Squadron flyers (three now dead, one captured) are introduced in a quiet prologue spoken by Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. They are modest young Americans, and they look as if they knew their business. One of them, says Reynolds, is the squadron's acknowledged ace and "one of the greatest pilots in the R..A.F." He is a curly-haired ex-Hollywood makeup man named Gus Daymond, just turned 20 and holder of Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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