Word: sid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naval reserves and Mil Sci have left a number of lettermen, however, and they will be jointed by men from Jayvee and House squads. The men with Varsity experience include the regular backfield of Don Richards, Wayne Johnson, Bill Wilson and Swede Anderson, plus George Hibbard, Wally Flynn, Sid Smith, Paul Perkins, Tom Cowen, Dana Dudley, and Willo Fisher if Jaakko Mikkola can spare...
...College's history, come sprinter Fred Carr, quarter-miler Max Pincus, half-milers Wally Clubb and Frank Mason, miler Dick Bryan, two miler Archio Lyon, high jumper Alex Rogerson, and Willo Fisher (winner of the 35-pound weight event in the IC4A two weeks ago) and gridder Sid Smith in the weights...
...yard relay--Won by Princeton (Shand, Dick Holstein, Sid Howell, Barnabe). Time...
...past eight weeks San Francisco has been lapping up a double-scoop, 15-act vaudeville show called Highlights of 1943. Its title is much the most up-to-date thing about it. Produced by Hollywood's fabulous cinemaestro, Sid Grauman, it offers, with crafty candor, the kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition...
Slight, soft-spoken Sid Grauman, who has long-term plans for San Francisco producing, was born 56 years ago in Indianapolis. The son of a minstrel-show manager, he was carted young all over the country: "I went to a hundred schools, and I never got out of the fifth grade." When still a boy, he went with his father to Alaska, where they "expected to pick up gold in a pail." After a few gleamless months, the father rushed home to a dying child and left Sid with $250, which he promptly lost in a crap game. He picked...