Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SERGEANT LYLE H. MACKIE U.S.A.A.F...
Burial arrangements were in charge of one of the most unfunereal of U.S. authors - Lyle Saxon, whose literary merit (Old Louisiana, Fabulous New Orleans, Children of Strangers) has long been overshadowed by his reputation as a wit and New Orleans host. Assisting WPA's George Field in preparing the final report on all WPA activity in the 48 States, Saxon hoped to write FINIS to the Federal Writers' Project within a short time...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...
...ghosts of Bob's school banners and pictures, that had become so familiar. He stared hard at the emptiness. A piece of jagged white wood hanging slantwise on the wall by a single nail caught his eye. Vag cocked his head and read, "H-19, P-14, Comeford to Lyle." He thought of Bob on that fantastic afternoon wading into the melee of wild-eyed goal posters in his shirt sleeves, while Vag held his coat and made conversation with Bob's girl from Vassar...
Technical Sergeant Anton Budgen leaned down from the gun turret above me, and then he nicked a switch, turning on the interphone system. "Andy, there's two pursuits on our left and above us," said Lyle Winchell, our rear gunner. "Okay, Okay," said Pilot V. M. Anders. "Keep your...