Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, he jokingly concluded, remained "rather timid, and remembering that I was a battery commander, has always felt a little backward about asking me to look at a review ..." Finally he picked up his telephone and told Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray that he wanted to watch the ground forces do their stuff...
Though he is not as much of a baseball fan as Mrs. Truman-who went to New York to watch the World Series-he watched the Yankee-Dodger games in the afternoon either on the twelve-inch television screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department...
...watch in the Army backfield this afternoon are Jim Cain, Vic Pollock, an do course Arnold Galiffa. Cain is the Cadet's fastest runner and leading ground gainer, with an impressive 147 yards in three games. Top yards-pertly man is Pollock with an average of 8.4 in 15 tries. Galiffa, quarterback in the Army T, usually relegates the running game to his associates and concentrates on baffling the backer ups and throwing passes...
...Harvard scouting corps, four strong, fans out again today to watch the Crimson's future opponents in action. Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Princeton, and Brown, Harvard's next fees after Army, will be scrutinized by end coach Elmer Madar, freshman coach Henry Lamar, junior varsity mentor Ben McCabe, and Bill Barclay...
McCabe will watch the Cross in action against Duquesne. His own team has a morning game with the Army jayvees and McCabe will have to leave Soldiers Field well before the final whistle in order to arrive at Worcester in time...