Word: p
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Sunday a gaunt, austere figure with sideburns, long frock coat and tight, narrow trousers leaves his home in Paris' Latin Quarter, crosses the Seine and heads for Père-Lachaise Cemetery. For hours he strolls among the dead marshals, statesmen and courtiers of the dead Napoleonic Empire; he never fails to pause before the tombstone of the Comtesse de Girardin, the greatest beauty of the Little Corporal's court. Jean Auguste Louis Armand Fèvre, by profession a dealer in rare books, by appearance a bourgeois gentleman of Napoleon's day, has chosen to live...
...designer of the famed Liberty engines, developed Packard's Twin6 in 1915 (first U.S. 12-cylinder production car) and helped develop engines for Gar Wood's 125-m.p.h. speedboats. During World War II, he redesigned Rolls-Royce's Merlin aircraft engine (used in P-51s and Spitfires) so that it could be mass-produced by Packard...
Probable batting order: Carduff, 2b; Hickey, 3b; Akillian, cf; Donelan, lf; Wise, lb; Thompson, rf; Cook, p; Cabot, ss; Goodman...
...Crosby, c 3 0 1 12 1 0 Coulson, lb 3 0 0 8 0 0 Moffle, cf 3 0 0 2 0 0 Neal, rf 4 0 2 2 0 0 Mannino, 3b 2 0 0 0 1 0 Cavanaugh, 2b 3 0 0 1 2 0 Godin, p 2 0 0 0 3 0 *Roche 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...Summary: HARVARD FRESHMEN (9) ab r h po a e Carduff, 2b 4 2 2 3 1 1 Hickey, 3b 4 1 0 1 1 2 Akillian, cf 3 2 1 4 0 0 Donelan, p 3 0 0 0 2 0 Wise, 1b 2 0 0 4 0 0 Switzer, 1b 1 0 0 1 0 0 Thompson, rf 3 2 2 1 0 0 Connolly, lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 Harris 1 0 0 0 0 0 Robinson, lf 1 1 1 0 0 0 Cabot, ss 2 0 0 1 4 1 Cook...