Word: tiernan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smattering of G.O.P. well-wishers -heard their jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch him grow to greatness." Monsignor L. Curtis Tiernan, chaplain of Artillery Captain Truman's regiment in France in World War I, told how Harry had averted panic, when his men were caught in crossfire, with some "good, plain Missouri talk." Had the chaplain rebuked Harry for his ear-scorching remarks? Replied Tiernan: "Oh, hell no!-sorry...
Second Team: Goal, Jim Bailey, Harvard, and Al Pitts (tie), Boston University; defense, Bob Owen, Harvard, and Mike McDonough, Providence; forwards, Jim Tiernan, B.C., Jack Carruthers, B.U., and Dick Fischer, Harvard...
...when it was over, the Eagles, who have been so highly spoken of--men like Big Don Fox, Jim Tiernan, Billy Leary, and Dick Kane--had little to show; rather, it was the unheralded sophomores for the Crimson who scored the big goals--Dick Reilly, Paul Kelley, and Vietze, all of which indicated as well as anything else that it was a tremendous team victory...
Forcing play into the Crimson zone and keeping it there, B.C. had two goals by 7:11 of the period to take the lead. The second, credited to Tiernan, was a bad break for the varsity, since Bailey accidentally knocked in a pass from behind the cage...
...Arena Saturday night. After losing to Brown at the start of the season, the Eagles roared back to crush Yale, 11 to 2, and beat the Bruins in a second meeting, 5 to 0. Starring the names that have plagued the Crimson for two years--Don Fox, Jim Tiernan, Dick Michaud, Dick Kane, and Paul Sheehy--B.C. is as good a sextet as New England offers...