Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, the 1,470-ton British sloop Amethyst steamed slowly up the Yangtze toward Nanking. On her starboard hand, massed for the assault across the river, lay the Communist armies. The Amethyst, with a 17-ft. Union Jack painted on each side of her grey steel hull, plowed the yellow-silted waters with assurance, a frail symbol of waning Western power in China. The Amethyst was to stand by the Chinese capital to protect British citizens. She never made...
...most probable boating for today is : Louis McCagg, stroke, George Gifford, at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, number four oar in doubt, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark is the coxswain...
...squad includes Bill Rickenbacker, Dave German, Hugh Nawn, Crawford Hubbell. Herb Meet, Bob Matson. Dick O'Keeffe, Bruce McIntyre, Sam Seager, Eliot Putnam, Scott Lukins, and Jack Denton. The first seven of these--Rickenbacker through O'Keeffe--will play Bowdoin today...
...will be a case of the green man versus the experienced man in Ithaca this afternoon when Jack Barnaby's upstart tennis team meets a strong Cornell squad...
...singles today the Harvard lineup will be Bug Ager, Captain Tod Bullard, Charlie Ames, Hilliard Hughes, Jack Frey, and Jay Robb in that order...