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Tall, breezy Carl Wakefield, San Francisco adman, sat down fuming and circularized Vice Admiral John Greenslade, Lieut. General John L. De Witt and Coast Guard Commander Roderick Patch: "Fifty-thousand Japanese parachutists could have landed on San Pablo Bay on that night, and a clear night it was, without detection...
...former Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller is making a stiff fight for the B team pivot post, but at present ranks behind Gardiner. Charlie Tarbell from Belmont Hill is a good fullback, but has Saturday competition to buck in Paul Perkins, Gershon Ross, Tom Cowen, and Wayne Johnson. From Wakefield High comes their co-captain Paul Lazzaro. He too, like Lee Flynn, is small, but speedy, and Harlow is looking for speed in this year's backfield, so he may yet crack the red jersey group...
...Radio School. Adding to the Navy men the 1,150 men training in the ROTC, a total of 3,650 men were at Harvard working for their commissions. Throughout the early part of 1918 and the summer. Undergraduates continued to drill in the ROTC, at the flying ranges in Wakefield, and the manoeuvers grounds at Fresh Pond...
Sailors tossed shells overboard. Two destroyers stood in against the Wakefield's sides and with a cruiser at the stern began taking on passengers who scrambled down landing nets. The bridge of one destroyer crunched against the huge transport's plates. The destroyer's captain yelled: "To hell with the bridge, hold...
...Wakefield could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...