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Cubs. Strong in the outfield, weak in catching. Strong hitters: Bill Nicholson (I-A), Lou Novikoff (I-A), Andy Pafko (4-F). Said General Manager Jim Gallagher: "No government action will shorten the season...
...months ago in the Harvard Scuttlebutt, Captain Barker was described as, "a Navy man's Navy man." His modest and direct manner would hardly indicate that he is the holder of the Navy Cross, which he earned when in the position of Executive and Navigation officer of the destroyer "Nicholson," the first destroyer to be sent by the United States to the Allied Naval forces...
...then assigned to the battleship "Michigan" and later to the destroyer "Nicholson," at which time he received the Navy Cross...
Sergeant Joe Louis, 29, was knocked down by his old sparring partner, Sergeant George Nicholson, in an exhibition bout for soldiers at Mitchel Field, L.I. Later Sergeant Nicholson protested almost apologetically that he had not really knocked Joe down with the punch, but by stepping on his foot had accidentally made him fall...
Murille Grieve of Cobham and Violet May Nicholson of Kingston-upon-Thames arrived at Brighton for a brief vacation. They stepped into a shop and were blown up to the next floor and buried in the debris, unable to move, not knowing whether they were dying or not. Eight hours later they were dug out. In a week they were ready to leave the hospital...