Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sleep." The Bradley snapped like a stick. A few minutes later, as seamen in the forward part of the vessel pulled on their jackets and fought toward the rails, the stricken craft rolled over. First Mate Fleming and Deck Watchman Frank Mays pulled themselves onto a 4-by-8-ft. raft, began shouting to the others. "The sea was so great that men were hidden," said Fleming later. "We saw someone near and shouted him over to us." It was Deck Watchman Gary Strzelecki...
Quarterback Frank Finney, Dartmouth's Halfback John Crouthamel and Yale's Center Mike Pyle could make almost any varsity in the U.S. But football players must compete for available financial aid on a strictly equal basis with all other students. Many of the best players get no help at all. Dartmouth's Coach Bob Blackman. reared in the high-pressure big time (University of Southern California), reports with a lingering trace of disbelief that in his four seasons at Dartmouth "none of our first-string quarterbacks have required or received scholarship help." In the Ivy League, explains...
Leading the league in total offense is Brown quarterback Frank Finney, 122 yards ahead of Cornell's ace, Tom Sky-peck. Finney completed his final season with 852 yards on 162 plays. The two quarterbacks are also in a dog-fight for passing honors, with Finney 122 yards ahead...
...first team included: Norman Juvonen (E), Cornell; Barney Berlinger (E), Penn; Robert Shaunessy (T), Harvard; Edward Savitsky (T), Cornell; and Alvin Krutsch (G), Dartmouth; Joseph DeDeo (G), Princeton; Donald Warburton (C), Brown; Frank Finney (QB), Brown; John Crouthamel (HB), Dartmouth; John Heyd (HB), Princeton; and Paul Choquette (FB), Brown...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...