Word: stan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relatively small Puritan team will attempt to prove the old adage that good things come in little packages when it takes on a rather mediocre Bell Boy aggregation. Winthrop should win this one, and is counting heavily on Stan Durwood, who was all set to take a place on the Varsity tackle squad when the Deans nabbed him. Durwood is playing his old position in the backfield, and should work the Lowell defense pretty hard...
...second game of the afternoon a small-sized Winthrop eleven has the call over a fair-to-middling Bell Boy outfit. Comparatively green in experience, the Puritans are counting on their triple-threat back, Stan Durwood, to stack up the yardage against to Lowell defense...
Younger brother Stan was Bellamy's chief target, especially after a little girl named Alice discovered that she was not an "own" child but an adopted orphan. :' 'Why, it might happen to anybody,' Stan said. 'How could a person tell?' It was at that moment when the idea came to me. . . . 'You couldn't tell,' I said, 'nobody could. . . . Stan, I hadn't intended to tell you this, but . . . you're not really my brother at all-you're an orphan...
...mother reassured weeping Stan. But Bellamy was not stumped: "They've made up their minds that you're never to know the truth." At last Mother forbade any reference to orphans. But when a visitor remarked that Stan did not look like his brothers, Bellamy said, "Now you know why." And when Stan discovered that his thumb was different from the other Partridge thumbs, Bellamy asked: "You're not surprised...
Although the Harvard Varsity eleven faces its toughest schedule in years minus the services of Charlie Spreyer, first-string fullback who has been called by Uncle Sam, and Bud Waldstein and Stan Durwood, two capable reserves who went on pro after finals last year, the Crimson outlook is growing brighter day by day as Coach Dick Harlow whips a number of rapidly-improving Sophomores into shape as reserves, and a sheaf of men from the injured list return to active duty today...