Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With ace center Ted Nelson benched for the whole game, Jim Powell became top scorer for the Puritans. Seven of his 13 points were made on fouls...
...Brown Envelope. When Joe got the check, he said, Nelson picked him up in his Packard and dropped him at the bank. Joe drew out the money, met Nelson in the Hotel La Salle lobby. They had a drink, then got into Nelson's car. Joe said that Nelson then took a brown envelope out of his pocket and told him to put the money in it. A few days later Nelson summoned Joe to pose with Governor Dwight Green for newsreel pictures. Said Joe: "I didn't shave and didn't wear a necktie...
Last week, a grand jury listened to Joe's story and invited Rags Nelson to tell his. Rags was indignant, then thought better of it. He told newsmen that he had attended the wake with Joe, had a drink with him at the La Salle, but denied all knowledge...
...Descendant of a William Glass whose family stayed behind on Tristan in 1817, when Britain, convinced that Bonapartists could not use the island as a base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...
Oswald George Nelson has been described by a CBS official as "one of the few guys who didn't get eaten up by radio...