Word: misters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he learned two months ago that he would soon be going home, he wrote to Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania his order for a seven-day dream: "A suite that will face east ... a cup of English-made tea served to me in bed ... no military title -'Mister' will be music to my ears. . . ." A phonograph "with any & all Strauss selections," a "large, grey-haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every morning for his wife Jane, candles on the table for dinner...
Davis and Blanchard's individual fire power combined in one backfield adds NT to Blaik's T. With a smart quarterback mixing his one-two punches, Mister Inside and Mister Outside are guaranteed to drive a rival defense nuts. Even conservative Red Blaik says: "I doubt if any team ever had two such players in the backfield at the same time...
...succeed in 1945. Army, the experts' other pre-season choice, did. Last week, the Cadets' well-seasoned T attack steamrollered Duke 4840-13 for victory No. 5. It was such easy going that All-America Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and All-America Halfback Glenn ("Junior") Davis-Mister Inside and Mister Outside -had what amounted to a day off: they scored only three touchdowns, let the second-stringers have a whirl...
...yesterday, in a crummy, crowded room at Etampes, France, Pfc. Joe Weston, A.U.S., listened to a bored speech by a bored 2nd lieutenant, finally got a brown manila envelope full of papers and heard himself called Mister Weston for the first time in 40 months...
...when your young correspondent . . . tries to hold me up as one who puts dollars ahead of patriotism and loyalty to his country, then, mister, I come up fighting...