Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panel Howle-Houston sets his sights on the last green-jerseyed defender, while tailback Pete Petrillo heads for the sidelines and backfield coach Davy Nelson (to the right of Petrillo) watches the play develop...
Backfield coach Davey Nelson will manage Crimson scouts for the season, although he himself will be in Cambridge to handle the rooftop end of the stadium phone between bench and press box each Saturday...
Died. Helen Lee Worthing, fiftyish, faded onetime Ziegfeld Follies dancer who was once pressagented as "the most beautiful girl in the world"; of seconal poisoning; in Los Angeles. After a few parts in silent movies, she married a Negro physician, Dr. Eugene Nelson, was dropped by the studios, eventually moved on to drink, dope and sanitariums...
...Guard. In Glendale, Calif., Albin Nelson complained that his neighbor, Miss A. C. Madsen, not only kept him awake all night while she listened to the Republican Convention, she stuck a hose through the window and squirted him when he tuned in the Democrats...
Died. William Nelson Cromwell, 94, eminent New York corporation lawyer (founding partner of Sullivan & Cromwell); in Manhattan. One of the organizers of U.S. Steel, Cromwell was the last surviving principal (as general counsel) of the dubious New Panama Canal Co. that paid French engineering interests an estimated $5,000,000 "for canal rights in Panama, talked Theodore Roosevelt into buying them up for $40 million...