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...third period Melrose threw a scare into the freshmen as they tallied twice more to tie the game up. Then Skip Johnson beat the Melrose goalie with a fast shot at 11:42, unassisted, but Melrose recovered to knot the score again...
...crowd turned in horror. The man nervously protested his innocence. A church attendant searched him, found a piece of the cross-shaped mounting in his pocket. An angry knot closed in around him. He screamed for help as a dozen women ripped off their shoes and began beating him and clawing at his clothes. By the time the police had pushed through the mob, he was ragged and bleeding...
From the White House last week came news that cheered the U.S. Navy: the name of Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke was on the list of 23 naval officers nominated for promotions to rear admiral...
Hard-hitting Arleigh Burke was always a handy man to have around in a fight. In the South Pacific campaign he won the nickname "31-Knot Burke" from the speed with which he pushed his destroyer squadron into action. He became chief of staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty Task Force 58, won a chestful of medals, was promoted to the temporary rank of commodore. When the Navy's own war against the Air Force and the Defense Department broke out, Burke was assigned to head "Op-23," a compact and more or less secret Navy Department task...
...received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...