Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knock a wall down the way Big Jim Allit can. Big Jim, a fat-cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
...September, the Manhattan demolition firm of Lipsett, Inc. sent Big Jim to Pittsburgh to help clear away the wreckage of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway's old Wabash Station, which had been swept by an $8,000,000 fire in 1946. With his 40-ton crane and his wrecking ball, Big Jim was the delight of Pittsburgh's sidewalk superintendents. Every day, hundreds of people gathered to watch him work. The Pittsburgh Press ran a Sunday feature story about Big Jim. The story said that he was "the best free show in town...
Lamar was sufficiently impressed by Jim Lowell's signal calling against the Exonians to start him at quarterback again and the rest of the Crimson backfield will feature the two Johns, White and West, who made it hot for the prepschoolers last Saturday...
...tide of injuries seems to be turning at last, with all but four men ready to play today. Jim Kenary, Don Stone, John Gorczynski, and Howie Houston will sit this one out. The loss of this quartet, plus Vince Moravec, however, weakens the Crimson severely at center, both tackles, fullback, and in forward passing...
Other tentative Crimson starters are Walt Coulson and Red Hill at, ends, Emil Drvaric and Jim Feinberg at guards. Around Flynn in the backfield are slated chip Gannon at wingback, Hal Moffle at tailback, and Kenny O'Donnell, who captained the squad for sixty minutes against Dartmouth last week, at quarterback...