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William Palson, who finished 200 yards ahead of the field in the Yearling race, was elected captain of the 1944 team after the meet. The next three places were snared by Tim Coggeshall, Marsh Hughes and Robert Mead in that order...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was that I had speed cops escorting me and the road was mine...
...Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside the city. But the windows of St. Mary-le-Bow near by, commemorating John Milton with the expulsion scene from Paradise Lost, were shattered. And St. Giles Cripplegate, where Milton's remains lie, did not survive the bombings as it did the fire of 1666. It was here...
...Economon, Harold C. Fleming, George William French III, Thomas H. Green, Donald E. Greenholz, Richard P. Hall, Thomas C. Hall, George A. Hibbard, Frederick J. Hillman, William J. Houston, Clifton M. Howard, Jr., John C. Hulley, Arthur M. Johnson, Loring J. Larson, Edmond J. LeMoal, Gerald Lenane, Paul E. Marsh...
Most of the Marshes went to Harvard: Othniel Charles Marsh went to Yale. There he became the first U. S. professor of paleontology. For Yale he wheedled from his uncle, crusty Financier-Philanthropist George Peabody, some $200,000 for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. For the Museum he assembled the largest collection of fossil vertebrates of his day, including the completely reconstructed skeletons of twelve dinosaurs, one pterodactyl. On his fossil hunts in the Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents...