Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what will probably be the last chance for many Freshmen to unite in a class gathering, members of 1946 tonight will hold an informal dance in Mem Hall at 8 o'clock with music to be supplied by Artio Ross and his orchestra...
...same time Memorial Hall was confirmed as the locale of the affair, and 8 o'clock was set for festivities to begin. Closeness of the dance date to the mid-year exam period has made it imperative to have it entirely informal, the committee's statement said, but Artie Ross will bring his band to provide music until 1 o'clock as previously announced. The same band provided the music for the Freshman informal in Lowell House during the summer term...
...ADELE Ross New York City...
...ring four years, hard little Barney Ross, 32, was still all right in defense and attack, and his footwork was wonderful. He was a Marine private on Guadalcanal. In the jungle at about sundown, Private Ross looked up and beheld an advance guard of Japs approaching. "They got no more than ten yards away," he said later, "and everybody started firing and scattering." Ross got two wounded men into a shell hole and dived into a six-foot crater. Three other men joined him, one of them wounded in the knee. The prize fighter started throwing grenades...
Every time he lifted his head machine-gun bullets whanged his helmet: before the night was over there were 30 creases in it. The Japs never stopped firing all night. Ross emptied his rifle at a gun nest and then grabbed another rifle; the other men reloaded and he fired. He figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock...