Word: welker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 76 days of riding on the same trains, living at the same hotels, thrashing out their three-cushion billiard feud in 13 cities, Champion Welker Cochran and Challenger Willie Hoppe were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand...
...Juhl has been named G. F. Welker, who has been detached for sea duty. Lt. Juhl has been on the staff since June, also in an assisting capacity...
...Welker, who has had more than 19 years of service in the Navy and Naval Reserve in both war and peace, first enlisted in 1923 as a radioman and saw continuous duty for six years. He was on submarines operating out of Pearl Harbor and was attached to the Naval Radio Station at Astoria, Oregon...
Lieut. Gilbert F. Welker, USNR, Personnel Officer of NTS (Communications) and a member of the staff at Harvard since the school first opened a year ago, has been detached and will leave for active duty October...
...were inspected by the following staff members accompanying Lieut Commander Paradise: Lieut. Commander E.W. Sweetland, Executive Officer; Lieut. Commander B.L. Stewart; Lieut Commander P.F. Hilton; Lieut. G.F. Welker; Lieut. (j.g.) H.M. Hansen; and Lieut. (j.g.) A.X. O'Connor...