Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trumbull presented silver footballs to the four coaches, Henry N. Lamar, Floyd S. Stahl, Specialist (A) 1/c Philip Piscal, and Chief Specialist (A) Richard Tuckey. Lamar in his acceptance speech requested one moment of silence for the ten men who did not finish out the season with the Crimson squad...
Edward L. Bigelow, Jr. '46, manager of the team, was awarded a silver football. H. E. "Bud" Thurman, Jr. '45 served as master of ceremonies, while over 55 trainers and squad members attended the gathering and the beer party which followed...
...modernish costumes helped, too: Hamlet wears trousers instead of tights, delivers "To be, or not to be," in a dinner jacket with silver-brocade lapels. No help at all were the unpoetic sergeants who inevitably shattered the high-tragic mood of the soldier cast's rehearsals, with such prose passages as "Hey, Polonius, you and those other guys get some brooms and clean up the theayter...
...Crowe contributed his bit to Marine folklore: leading a charge against the dug-in Japs, he yelled: "Get out of those foxholes, men, you'll never get the Purple Heart layin' there!" Jim Crowe lasted through Tarawa before he got his Purple Heart, added it to his Silver Star (Guadalcanal), Navy Cross (Tarawa) and his Good Conduct medal (four enlistments) which he says he prizes most...
...strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress, and a few scant hours after Boston's handsome young Mayor...