Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field, Shepard still has problems to work out. With Jay Sullivan gone, Chet Boulris was stationed at third base for the Tufts and Navy games, and though his bat work was good (five hits, including a home run), his fielding was ragged. Accordingly, Moe Balboni wil be at third today. Boulris moves to left field. Charlie Leamy will be in center, and Charlie Ravenel in right...
...Bellino, a blocky catcher, was the leading Navy batsman, rattling out four hits in five tries and driving home four runs. Bellino is a potential All-America as a football halfback, and hails from nearby Winchester. Harvard originally had designs upon him, but he is one of that regrettably large group of local athletes who did not measure up to College admission standards...
Chet Boulris had three safeties for the varsity, including a long wrong-field home run. George Harrington also made three hits, and center-fielder Charlie Leamy, usually no terror at the plate, contributed two triples to the losing cause. Singles by Mouse Kasarjian, Charlie Ravenel, and Doug Brown comprised the remainder of the Crimson's offensive efforts...
Meanwhile, however, Navy was begin- ning its own offensive fireworks, scoring two runs in the home-half of both the first and the second innings. The count remained 4-3 until the fifth, when Navy pushed across three more tallies...
Chunking was his home for a good part of the war--Chunking, cut off from the world except by air, with its population combatting the difficulties of the Chinese war resistance and sweating out bomb raids in the crowded caves through 1942. Fairbank himself was beset with jaundice and dysentery, but says he was not in much danger of losing his life. "We ate better than the poor people," he reports, although stringy water buffalo meat and goat's milk doesn't sound too appetizing today. The group he was with lived