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...corpuscular clotting of automobile traffic in its downtown arteries-grew almost unbearable. By 1947, its regular morning and evening attacks were getting progressively worse, and it had exhausted all the known home remedies. In despair it hired a greying, bucktoothed police captain from Flint, Mich, named Henry W. ("Hank") Barnes and asked him to administer some pain killer...
...might not have been a game at all if Tiger Captain Hank Bothfeld had followed his father and brother to Harvard. As it was, only the brilliant goal tending of Brad Richardson kept him from person- ally matching the Crimson's total. He sank the Tigers' second score at 11:22 of the final period to pull the Tigers within a goal of Harvard...
Although Columbia's Hank Littlefield pinned George Bates in the unlimited weight event, the Crimson's lead was insurmountable...
Poor ice--the temperature was 54--and an inability to put together a steady attack, left the Crimson on the short end at Princeton Saturday afternoon. The Tigers, with goals by defenseman Derek Price, standout center Hank Bothfeld, and Joe Davis...
...Munich railway station, he almost gave the show away when he called out in English, "All right, Hank, I've got the tickets," but he drew only glares from the crowd. A short distance from the Swiss frontier, they were challenged by a German sentry, but posed as Flemish workingmen and convinced him. That night, less than four days after leaving Colditz, Reid and his friend stopped under a lamppost in a Swiss village and shook hands. Even the British government thought it was a pretty good getaway. Reid's reward: the Military Cross...