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Between 14 and 16 Yardlings, composing the Freshman baseball squad, will travel South next week on their annual spring trip, they will attempt to avenge last year's defeats at the hands of Mercersburg School in Pennsylvania and Staunton Military Academy in Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1944 Baseball Squad Starts Trip Monday | 3/25/1941 | See Source »

...first game, the team was beaten by the Navy plebes by a score of 2 to 1, although it was just an informal, five-inning tilt. Augusta, Military Academy fell before the vengeance of the Freshmen, 11 to 4, but Staunton was able to eke out a 3 to 2 win in 11 innings. The Yardlings overpowered Massanutten Military Academy, 25 to 8, but were even more badly beaten themselves on Saturday by Mercersburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Nine Returns From Five-Game Southern Tour | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...wife, Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, who never knows whether the fierce "Chwist!"* that comes from the bathroom in the mornings at shaving time means he has cut his jugular or is thinking of some dastardly tariff provision. Mrs. Hull, descended from an old Jewish family of Staunton, Va., is an Episcopalian, is generally regarded as the best all-around wife in the Cabinet. The Hulls have no children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...bishop responsible for the actions of Anglican clergymen in France is Right Rev. Basil Staunton Batty, Bishop of Fulham. He was summoned to a hasty and secret conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace. Few hours later Bishop Batty made a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Benediction | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Proudly We Hail (by Joseph M. Viertel Shapiro; James R. Ullman, producer). Author Shapiro, 21, is the son of the proprietor of the French Casino, a Manhattan hotspot. Young Mr. Shapiro attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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