Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nineteen soccer lettermen will participate in the election of their new captain who will replace Whoop Batcheder. Junior lettermen Don Harchman, Jim Johnson, Dick Miller, Charley Weiss, and Ted Wolf are eligible for the post as well as sophomore lettermen Vern Drechmel, Ben Goldstein, John Harvey, Larry Leonard, Hewitt Pantalconi, and Ed Seaga...
Several of last year's fast freshmen figured importantly in Shepard's attack, with Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey cutting in frequently to set up plays or to take quick lay-ups. Other sophomores who should see a lot of court action are Jim Downey and Jim Stevenson, both of whom fit nicely with Shepard's fast ball philosophy...
Hynes could not match the melodious oratory and easy braggadocio of 74-year-old Jim Curley. But then, he had never been put in jail for fraud either...
...Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the biggest total in his eight campaigns for mayor (126,000), but Johnny Hynes had collected 12,000 more...
Johnny Hynes's election gave Boston a long-needed chance for some political reform, and the mayor-elect hoped to oblige. First, he would sweep some 200 Curley appointees out of City Hall, including two of old Jim's sons. "Our city," said Hynes, "needs a new moral tone, a new atmosphere and a new outlook...