Word: hackett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homegrown, all-civilian, unbeaten team crashed head-on into once-beaten Michigan. With backfield strength about equal, this was one more gridiron battle that was decided up front. The Michigan line hit hard, but not quite so hard as Ohio's, led by 190-lb. Bill Hackett, prospective All-America guard, and Bill Willis, husky Negro tackle. Their bone-crushing tackles were mainly responsible for four Michigan fumbles...
Royal Exiles. War has spared the sport because it is by no means a young man's game. The best batsman in the leagues is Cliff Daly, a real-estate salesman in his 40s. The best wicketkeeper is probably Evans Hackett, nearing 50. One of the star all-round players is Edmund Holder, an elevator man in his 50s. War did, however, take the top bowler, Roy Huggins. A former shipping clerk, he is one of twelve Negroes now working for a commission at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
Huggins bowled for the Trinidad Club, the present holder of the championship , cup. An all-round dependable of the Trinidad team is Joseph Cameron, who with Hackett and Holder was among the pioneers of Harlem cricket some 30 years ago. Cameron and his brother Henry, operators of an employment agency, are also leaders in the socially desirable Royal Exiles cricket club, which is not in the leagues...
...older Holmes grew, the younger he acted. He liked to challenge the earnest young Liberals-Francis Hackett, Walter Lippmann, Herbert Croly, Felix Frankfurter-who flocked around him: "What is it? Tell me, I'll take the opposite side." "These young men," he complained, "are so damned solemn." He was painted by Artist Charles Hopkinson in the full glory of his judicial robes. "That isn't me," said Holmes, "but it's a damn good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start...
Charlie Hockett had done a little teaching (freshman composition, English for foreigners) before the Army took him early in 1942. Corporal Hockett was raking leaves in a Virginia camp almost a year later when the Army decided to teach Chinese to 224 officers en route to China. Hackett, who knew no Chinese but had a Yale Ph.D. in the science of languages, got the job. He was still a corporal when he got back three months later. But he had done so well that he soon got his gold bars. Here...