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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dixieland consistently breeds good baseball teams. In its 1948 swing, the Crimson won its first game (Johns Hopkins), lost twice (George Washington and Temple), and tied Maryland. Two games were rained out. The teams on this spring's trip are almost all new ones. The entourage leaves South Station at 9 a.m. tomorrow and is due in Charlottesville at 9:13 p.m. The team will not stop at any hotels along the way but will be put up by each of the schools it plays. Batting practice will be held every morning...
Locked In. Last week all Boston knew the story of Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide from the world. In the dingy Roxbury Crossing police station, 13-year-old Gerald, an otherworldly child with the flabby frame of a sickly girl, told his story. His mother had kept him locked in a bare, tiny, lightless room as far back as he could remember. She had brought him food on a tray, but he was forever hungry. Now & then she gave him a few marbles or a comic book...
...until four years ago his game was football. At Chicago Latin School, Johnny was a triple-threat halfback, but never spent much time at baseball. The Navy nabbed him before he could decide which college football scholarship to accept, and sent him to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...that is only the beginning. "Man," he says, "I wake up nights with new ideas." He wants a health clinic and a park for West Dallas, a community library, and a dairy barn for his school. He wants bee colonies, rabbit hutches, fruit trees and an amateur weather station-not forgetting a telescope to study astronomy ("That will get them a long way out of West Dallas"). He also wants to keep his school open all through the summer. "That way," says he, "a lot of these youngsters whose folks take them off cotton picking in the fall...
...feet, the film shows an airplane parachuting a solar observation station, with technical scientific equipment, down safely to the waiting Washburn...