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Capping a six-week competition that started the Tuesday after the Pre-Fight game, Theodore G. Kane '46 of Greenwich, Conn. and Eliot House was elected yesterday to head a five-man Freshman managerial staff that will run the Jayvee squad through the Yale game to New Haven...
Edward L. Bigelow of Eliot House, Willard T. Daetsch of Leverett House, Putnam B. McDowell of Winthrop, and George C. Warren, also of Winthrop, were named as Kane's Freshman assistants. They were chosen from a group of 15 competitors who will try again in the spring for Sophomore managerial posts...
...operations room "somewhere in the Middle East," Major John R. ("Killer") Kane stood before a map of Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya...
...ground, miles below, a German officer went into a fury. The radioed orders from Killer Kane's plane were confusing the German's orders to his fighter pilots. "Get the hell off the air," the German screamed. This struck the U.P.'s Henry Gorrell, listening, as pretty funny. It was not so funny when a handful of German fighters got off the ground. It was Gorrell's plane, the Witch, last in the formation, upon which the Axis fighters swooped. Wrote Gorrell...
...Besides Kane, there is Bob Odell, brother of the Eli mogul, another man who can carry the mail...