Word: weymouth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine Corps during his Freshman year in March 1943, and took part in the battle of Guam as a member of a Corps Artillery outfit. He was discharged as a corporal on April 7 of this year. The registration winner, a resident of Winthrop House and South Weymouth, and an Economics concentrator, is now also the possessor of Harvard badge of merit-a free copy of every Crimson to appear this summer...
...first one to slink in was the U-249, which put in at Weymouth harbor, in southern England, with ten unfired torpedoes aboard. Soon others were moving to English and Scottish ports; two came in to Gibraltar. The first surrender in the western Atlantic occurred when a patrolling R.C.A.F. Liberator spotted a U-boat and summoned surface craft to bring it in to Shelburne...
...then made two main landings in the south of England. Simultaneously airborne troops invaded the Midlands. The first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear. In the final stages the last British remnants in North Wales were cleaned up completing the occupation of England...
George Frazier '33, was one of the first critics to "discover" this young man who despite the physical disability which confined him to a wheelchair, had a personality so magnetic as to draw one great musician after another on the 15 mile pilgrimage to the Vinal hozze in South Weymouth. On a home records waxings were made of Charley jammings with Josh White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under...
...rest of the band is made up of Johnny Windhurst, the sensational 17-year-old cornetist from New York who has moved to South Weymouth after a brief visit to Boston earlier this winter (an example of how a sincere mutual interest can draw people together in nothing flat), Evan Schwarz on piano, and George Ohlson on drums...