Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furlough to fight now & then during the next 18 months, as Bummy Davis, Fred Apostoli, Steve Belloise and other enlisted men have done. But Broadway fightmongers last week predicted that Joe will do what he has always hoped to do: retire undefeated champion of the world-as Gene Tunney did, but without benefit of Shakespeare...
...final turning point came six weeks ago when Publisher Pope put his papers in the hands of the high-powered public-relations firm of Institute of Public Relations, Inc. Soon to a Montana internment camp went Il Progresso's No. 1 reporter Gene Rea, reported in a feature article that Italian prisoners were mostly happy, excellently treated. Other similar stories followed...
...seemed that an intensive door-to-door canvass in the middle of October, backed by considerable publicity in the CRIMSON, might be the best sort of drive, but because of the difficulties that might arise from a sudden switch from the present method, the following compromise was suggested by Gene Keith, and I would recommend that it be adopted for next year. The regular pledges and collections will be made in Memorial Hall preceded by a sizeable article in the registration issue of the Crimson which will inform the Freshmen and some of the upper classmen what they are giving...
...head of the Corps is husky, golfing (middle 70s) Eugene Reybold (pronounced Rye-Bold), who was brought to Washington a year ago by Chief of Staff Marshall to head G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff.* Although he has been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went...
...Louis is not only the Gene Tunney but the Bobby Jones of his race. He has done more than any other person to popularize golf among Negroes. But on the fairway, Joe is no Jones. Aided by his mighty right, he can sock a ball nearly 300 yards. "But," he moans, "I have trouble with my left hook and just ain't got that delicate touch around the greens." Still, under the private instruction of Bermudian Pro Louis Corbin and Washingtonian Clyde Martin, his present tutor, Louis has become a better than average golfer, has often chalked up scores...