Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army beat Navy for the fourth year in a row. This year's less-than-great Army team held Navy scoreless (21-0), which the Blanchard & Davis teams of other years were never able to do. Hero of the day: Rip Rowan, who ran 92 yards for one touchdown, threw a pass for another...
Complete lineups of the two teams: First Team: ends, Swiacki (Columbia) and Iannicelli (Franklin and Marshall); tackles, Shimshak (Navy) and Lilienthal (Villanova); guards, Suhey (Penn State) and Steffy (Army); center, Bednarik (Penn); backs, Burns (Rutgers), Rossides(Columbia), Minisi (Penn), and Rowan (Army...
...Night Clerk Comer Rowan sat in for his wife at the switchboard of Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel. It was a dull hour. Out of the front door, cold moonlight flooded deserted Peachtree Street. In his tenth-floor suite, white-thatched, 70-year-old W. Frank Winecoff, who built the hotel in 1913,* slept soundly...
...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
Downstairs, Clerk Rowan phoned in the alarm. While he frantically roused the sleepers, flames and gas ballooned up the two elevator shafts and the two narrow stairways to the ventless roof. Stopped there, the seething mass backed up in search of outlets, shot down hallways with flamethrower force, began melting brass doorknobs, powdering plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes...