Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson workhorse Jack Wallace coralled his fifth win of the current season Wednesday 7 to 4 at Newport, Rhode Island, but the big right-hander had to have help in the ninth when Melville PT Boat pushed across two quick scores, loaded the bases, and had the tying run on first base...
Wright, who pitched for the State of Rhode Island at the national softball tourney at Chicago in 1940 (won by Rochester Kodak), never allowed more than two runs in any of the six games. Shortstop Al Pytko, of the same team, proved to be perhaps the best leadoff man of the tourney, and Ash Carter took care of the league's most difficult catching assignment in handling Wright...
...Varsity will take the field tomorrow afternoon against Motor Torpedo Boat S.T.C. at Melville, Rhode Island...
...Mindanao, southernmost Philippine island, U.S. troops captured the Valencia airstrips in the center of the island, and made them ready for fighters of the Thirteenth Air Force. But in southern Mindanao, Americans had one of the hardest actions of the campaign. Cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray...
...Sakhalin Island, half Russian and half Japanese, is poised like a blockbuster at the head of the Japanese archipelago. Last week the bleak, sparsely peopled island was the subject of a sudden blaze of Soviet publicity. Without exception, every Moscow morning newspaper published a two-column letter from the workers of Russian Sakhalin, thanking Premier Joseph Stalin for their liberation from the "horrors" of Japanese occupation 20 years ago. They promised: "We shall not relax our efforts one minute ... to bolster our defenses." The letter was also read in full by the Moscow radio...