Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...
...making his last appearance as an undergraduate, for he leaves College at midyears. The Crimson squad has its work cut out against the Quakers, who feature a number of Eastern championship possibilities including Dick de Battista, who holds the title in the 175-pound class. He will wrestle Pete Fuller, Freshman hopeful...
...everybody forget General MacArthur, he is really and truly the man of the year, by his heroic fighting in Bataan, the Japs were hampered and delayed, long enough for us to get reinforcements to Pearl Harbor, Australia, etc. He stopped the Jap horde from grasping all the Pacific, for Pete's sake pick an Army man, and that man is General Douglas MacArthur...
...Pete DeCenzie manages Des Moines' Casino Theater, where customers pay 20? before 1 p.m., 30? before 5 p.m. and thereafter 40? to see second-rate movies and bush-league burlesque ("Midnight Show Tonight . . . Red Hot Thrills . . . Adults Only"). Last week Manager DeCenzie was full of woe. Said he: "I had no idea. . . . I certainly was surprised. ... I was shocked to death...
...With Pete Garland turning in two first places, the Crimson track team rolled over Tufts in an informal meet in Briggs Cage Saturday afternoon, garnering six first places and one tie out of ten events...