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Yesterday's practice was highlighted by passing drill and a light scrimmage. Jack Comeford, a September Freshman who has yet to attend a class at Harvard, looked good, particularly in his role as pass defender. Jack is the lad who throw the only successful pass for the Crimson in the last Saturday's North Carolina pre-Flight game for a gain of nine yards...
Symbol of the grief was an unperturbed lad of 19 with an English name, Thomas Williams, who had lived in mediocrity and who died (by the rope) in glory, saying he died for Ireland. By the murder of a Belfast policeman last Easter Sunday morning, Thomas and five friends, said to be members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, commemorated Eire's Easter Rebellion...
...quiet lad, Pete boasts of only one thing: in seven years of fast semi-pro baseball, he has never hit under .300 for a season. He confidently expects to play in the major leagues some...
Once he sat in a "fine, decent pub, the type found only in rural England, run by a nice middle-aged woman and her two daughters." It was three miles from an airport where some of the R.A.F. night fighters were stationed. One "lad named Terry, who was like a character out of a book" described just what he would of do to Nazi troop planes if they ever tried to invade England...
...lad who can't stand the social gap between a private and Private First Class, the man or officer who can't stand promotion, and the one who can't stand not to be promoted...