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...stay on until he is 16, but C.H. has rarely been bothered by dull boys. The boys live the old Spartan life: they sleep on boards covered only by a thin mattress, eat cold gag (cold meat), crug and flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year the whole school marches to the residence of the Lord Mayor to receive for each boy a brand-new shilling and for each Grecian a guinea...
...Clare Street in the little Welsh town of Merthyr, an old man sits before a glowing fireplace. Aberdare Mountain rises just opposite the front porch and the River Taff flows by the back garden. At 79, old Jim Horner, sometime foremen at the Merthyr railroad station, is as clear of speech and keen of wit as ever. He is also as stoutly devoted as ever to his son Arthur, old Jim's pride and pain. Arthur has gone far since his childhood in Merthyr. Today he holds the fate of the nation in his clenched fists...
...Class of 1943: George William Eisenbeis, Thomas Alexander Gleeson, Robert Taff Hurley, Jack Herbert James, Thomas Allen Rogstad, George Alexander Steele Jr., Galen Luther Stone...
...Baldwin, 2b, J. W. Burrows c, B.B Long rf, M. J. Adams 3b, A. W. Slocum p, G. F. Russel 88, D. J. Kelly 1b, C. P. Atherton 1f, W. W. Taff cf, J. R. Giese...
...ends, Norris and Tower at tackles, Ingalls and Brookfield, guards, Dorman, centre, Morris, quarterback, Weymouth and Brine at the halfback positions and Whiting at fullback. The Junior eleven was composed of Lewis and Long, ends, Clapp and Herman, tackles, Foster and Cuushing, guards, Turner, centre, Heard, quarterback, Taff and Lane, half-backs, and Sack, fullback