Word: len
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayo Clinic doctors were more courageous. So was Ernie. To pay for the operation, he made a last appearance at the Canadian National Exposition, where he was billed as "Len and Ernie, the two boys with a single head...
Before the game Del Monte was a 5-to-1 favorite to win. Unbeaten in four starts, it was rated the strongest service eleven in the U.S. The backfield alone was good enough for any professional team: "Passing Paul" Christman of Missouri, Fordham's Len Eshmont, Ohio State's Jim McDonald, Parker Hall of Mississippi and the Cleveland Rams. Right end was 225-lb. Ed Cifers, All-America from Tennessee; left end was another All-America, Bowden Wyatt of Mississippi...
Kill or Be Killed, directed by Len Lye, is a sample British Army training film, which quietly dramatizes the protracted, silent, sinister contest between a Nazi sniper and a British soldier. The British soldier is as stolid and unheady as a pint of bitter. The Nazi, who gets killed in spite of his telescope sight and his fancy camouflage, is smart and dangerous, but loses his nerve. The butcherlike utilization of his corpse as a decoy clinches the picture's simple lesson: killing is no contest between good and evil, admits of no valuations except those of craft...
...Crimson ranks will be a number of ex-gridders now in service. Foremost of these is captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell, who entered active duty in the Marines yesterday morning. Other moleskinners now in uniform include Jack Fisher, Charley Gudaitis, Pete Garland, Jack Comeford, Lee Flynn, Dick Anderson, and Len Cummings...
...playing ranks have been similarly depleted. Aside from the '43 men who would not be out in normal times, captain-elect C Cleo O'Donnell, Jack Fisher, Charley Gudaitis, Pete Garland, Jack Comeford, Leo Flynn, Dick Andersen and Len Cummings are left...