Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toronto Starman Frederick Griffin reported that "a more terrible baptism [of fire] no new troops ever took, or took more splendidly." The Algonquin's commander said: "They were just as good as any reinforcements we have...
...members of the Harvard Outing Club's ski team will participate in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival Saturday and Sunday, February 3 and 4. Entered in the Giant Slalom to be held Saturday morning are Allan C. Butler, V-12; Gorald Y. Genn '48; Lawrence L. Griffin '48; and Thomas P. Grimley, NROTC. Saturday afternoon Alexander P. Coburn '48; Howard C. Nutting, V-12; Genn; and Griffin will take part in the 40 meter jump...
...canceled a projected trip to Mexico. A big Lancaster bomber flew him from Montreal to Britain (it was the first plane trip of his 60 years and he loved it). In London he stayed in a darkly elegant house behind Westminster Cathedral as the guest of Archbishop Bernard Griffin, called briefly on Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and other officials. He had an audience with King George...
...Goose. Later, with Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army camp. A foresighted quartermaster had sent to London for lobster to perk up the army menu. Cabled the Toronto Daily Star's Fred Griffin: ". . . the most beautiful meal I have eaten since leaving Canada nearly two years ago." The Prime Minister reviewed Canadian troops, made no speeches. In 1941, when the Canadians overseas were edgy and impatient under their long inaction, he addressed them and was roundly booed. This time the troops knew that...
...Newton Center, Mass., famed old Andover-Newton Theological Seminary called the Rev. George Dennis Kelsey to teach Christian Ethics at its summer school. Born 34 years ago in Columbus, Ga. (his parents both teach in Griffin, Ga.'s public schools), Mr. Kelsey hung up one of Andover-Newton's highest student scholastic records a decade ago, is now finishing a year's Rosenwald Fellowship at Yale's Divinity School. In the fall he will go back to teaching philosophy and religion at Atlanta's Morehouse College...