Word: franklin
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Cross country coach Bill McCurdy says he is much more optimistic about today's meet with Providence and the University of Massachusetts than he was before routing Northeastern. He is not sure. however. just how good the opposition will be when the three teams run at noon in Franklin Park...
...content to be a political kingmaker, Franklin D. Roosevelt fancied himself a prince-of-the-church maker as well. He lobbied successfully for Francis Spellman's appointment as archbishop of New York, and in 1939, when Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein died, F.D.R. had his hand-picked candidate for the nation's largest archdiocese. This time he failed. Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, the Roosevelt choice, was bypassed because he had irritated too many others inside and outside the church. Last week, after Sheil's death at 83 of heart disease, friends attending...
HUNDREDS of men and dozens of ships have dared to challenge the forbidding Northwest Passage, only to be crushed. In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his crew were driven to cannibalism. Henry Hudson was set adrift after his crew discovered that he had been pilfering the ship's stores. When Robert McClure finally traversed the passage in 1854, he went the final 200 miles by dogsled...
...freshman and varsity cross country teams got the Harvard intercollegiate sports year off to a good start yesterday afternoon by sweeping the top five places in both of the races against Northeastern at Franklin Park...
...years the local lament has been that Harvard cross-country coach Bill McCurdy can select any five men he wishes and win any meet he wants to. This afternoon. when the Crimson meets Northeastern at Franklin Park, he may have...