Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giegengack's power-bristling Elis are favored because they thumped the Varsity 82 to 27 in an indoor meet this winter, and because they finished second to NYU in the indoor IC4A meet at New York. They have a pair of IC4A champions in shot-putter Jim Fuchs and hurdler George Cook, plus a flock of other "name" athletes...
...Funciest shot of the day was the goal by Fred Chamberlain, an over-the-shoulder try made as he sprinted away from the nets...
Yaleman Beirne Lay Jr. (I Wanted Wings) was commander of the 48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with...
When Brigadier General Savage came down to take over the hard-luck 918th Bomb Group, he found an outfit whose morale and fighting efficiency were shot. They had seen too many of their ships and men go down and were pretty sure they weren't accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such...
...adjoining field, George Hanford's Freshmen pulled an upset by scalping the Indian freshmen 6 to 4. Dick Hansen was brilliant in flattening Dartmouth attack star Smitty Smith every time he leaped into the air for a shot...