Word: severn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy has been able to practice all winter on the ice-free Severn and promises to produce a crack outfit. However, military secrets are well kept, even when they pertain to athletic teams, and no times or crew compositions have as yet been announced...
...Annapolis, Navy crews are currently rounding into top shape after a winter of rigorous indoor practice and, more recently, workouts on the ice-free Severn...
Lieut. Commander Oscar Hagberg, recalled from submarine duty in the Pacific, found himself tutoring one of the mightiest loads of TNT ever assembled on the banks of the Severn. His forward armor, undeniable from end to end, sparkled with two All-Americans : Don Whitmire, tackle, and Jack Martin, center. Behind the seven pillars were Hal Hamberg, Navy's triple-threat ace of last year, and a backfieldful of ex-Alabama, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Penn State stars...
...pyramid of Caius Cestius, a stone's throw away. Other greats in the same cemetery: Shelley, Trelawny, John Addington Symonds. Keats's name goes unmentioned on his own gravestone ("Here lies one whose name was writ in water"), but is inscribed on that of his painter-friend Severn, buried by his side...
...Severn was not quite spared the barbs of the sophisticates who patronized him, but was confided in, trusted, never helped to great success, never permitted to sink to disaster. Later, when the full quality of Keats's genius began to be known, Severn was recognized as a hero, an authority, and the possessor of Keats's most valuable manuscripts and recollections. One day Severn ran away with the reputedly illegitimate daughter of Lord Montgomerie, married her, lived happily ever after...