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William Griffith Wilson grew up in a quarry town in Vermont. When he was 10, his hard-drinking father headed for Canada, and his mother moved to Boston, leaving the sickly child with her parents. As a soldier, and then as a businessman, Wilson drank to alleviate his depressions and to celebrate his Wall Street success. Married in 1918, he and Lois toured the country on a motorcycle and appeared to be a prosperous, promising young couple. By 1933, however, they were living on charity in her parents' house on Clinton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. Wilson had become an unemployable...
...Harvard swept UNO, 4-1 and 4-3, and rung in the new year with its first ECAC wins at Dartmouth and Vermont, 4-2 and 7-6, respectively. Moore had a hat trick against the Big Green...
...Crimson had righted its ship, and though it lost three of its next four, home ice witnessed another sweep in the last weekend of the season over Vermont, 5-3, and Dartmouth...
...Crimson managed just two other victories during the season: it engineered a dramatic 8-7 overtime win over then-No. 15 Pennsylvania on March 27, and it held off a late Catamount charge to edge Vermont 7-6 on April...
...Unfortunately, that upset victory would stand as the only Ivy League win the Crimson could muster. After Harvard barely rode out of Vermont on top, it did not emerge victorious again...