Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probable lineups: HARVARD RED SOX Forte, 2b ss, Lake Clark, rf rf, Fox Heath, lf 2b, Doerr Fitzgibbons, c. lf, Lazor Flynn, cf 1b, Lupien Gallagher, 3b cf, Garrison Slattery, 1b 3b, Tabor or Newsome Gleason, ss c, Peacock Berg, p p, Chase and Newsome
...club should be pretty much the outfit which will represent the those all season. PROBABLE LINEUP Forts, 2b ss, Lake Clark, rf rf, Fox Heath, lf 2b, Doerr Fitzgibbons, c lf, Simmons Flynn, of lb, Lupien Gallagher, 3b of, Garrison Slattery, 1b 3b, Taber or Newsome Gleason, ss 'c, Peacock Berg...
Thus, Johnny Peacock, veteran receiver, will be behind the plate, along with the talented infield of Tony Lupien '39, a figure well known to College students, Bobby Doerr, often rated as the best second baseman in all of major league baseball, shortstop Eddie Lake, a Boston newcomer who had been enslaved in the Cardinal farm system most of his adult life, and Jim Tabor or Skeeter Newsome at third...
...Peacock-proud of another break from the textbooks, bluff Ben Lear hopes to give Ranger training to every young officer and noncom, send him to his new division with plenty to teach. Like every other ranker charged with training, he has watched combat reports, talked to returning soldiers. Chief lesson from these sources is that even crack outfits are jittery, indecisive and prone to suffer high casualties in their first meetings with the enemy. By making home-training courses tougher, noisier and more dangerous, the Army is confident lives can be saved, battles won more quickly...
...Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...