Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike younger clubs, the Kubs and Kids have little holdout trouble. The players rush to practice year after year. In this year's lineups there is only one former big leaguer: Kub Catcher Fred ("Jake") Ross, retired streetcar maintenance man from Rockville Center, N.Y., who once played with the New York Metropolitans (a forerunner of the Yankees). One of the league's leading sluggers, who plays second base for the Kubs, is 83-year-old Frank Peckinpaugh, father of the great baseballing Roger.* The Kids' most eminent character is 77-year-old Elmer Veitch, onetime North Dakota...
...Section 6, Chaplain Leonard J. Fries; Section 7, Chaplain Bernard D. Treaster; Section 8, Chaplain Walter W. Harding; Section 9, Chaplain Orlando S. MeBride; Section 10, Chaplain Bernard V. Crfemer; Section 11, Chaplain John P. Fltzsimmons; Section 12, Chaplain James R. Cox; Section 13, Chaplain Robert H. P. Ross; Section 14, Chaplain Jason T. Harbert; Section 15, Chaplain Glyde A. Fleming; Section 16, Chaplain Anthony F. Wojiechi
Pete Fuller, 165 pounder, advanced as far as the semi finals. In his consolation match, he defeated Ross B. Frair of Cornell by a decision, 7 to 0. In his second place match, however, he was defeated by John Stockbridge of Lehigh...
Down the gangplank of a hospital ship at a West Coast port came hard little Marine Corporal Barney Ross, back from Guadalcanal with a few shrapnel wounds, back to Kaye, the showgirl he married shortly before he went off to war. Off the gangplank, he got down on his hands & knees, kissed the ground. "This I vowed to do if ever I saw American soil again," he explained gravely; "sometimes out there we're not so sure. . . ." Clutching a native-made cane decorated with "real Jap teeth," he told about his blistering nightlong battle in a shell hole (TIME...
...little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Flyman Keplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much more spontaneous any of the slightly forced travelogue series...