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...lieutenant) have been fully cleared; three others have been cleared but could be recharged. Four are still under investigation, and another four -including a staff sergeant accused of taking $275-are awaiting their day in court. But twelve have been reprimanded or similarly punished, and Staff Sergeant Marshall Wilhelm has been convicted of receiving about $60 in shakedown money, fined $320 and brought down by one grade in rank...
After Delaney's score, Bob Watson's ensuing kickoff evoked memories of a Hoyt Wilhelm knuckleball, as the pigskin spun off his foot about fifteen yards down the left sideline, took one weird bounce, and landed in the arms of a startled Phil Jenkins at Harvard...
...practice of law, managing a department store, as a banker, a football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded seven fellow officers to help him try to kidnap the German Kaiser Wilhelm and deliver him as a Christmas present to President Woodrow Wilson. The scheme eventually failed, but the fact that MacPhail managed to nab one of the Kaiser's monogrammed ashtrays testified to how close the plotters had come to pulling...
Died. General Wilhelm D. Styer, 81, commander of the U.S. Army in the Western Pacific in the final months of World War II; in Coronado, Calif. A 1916 graduate of West Point, Styer saw action against Pancho Villa's guerrillas in Mexico and in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917. While returning to Washington to join the Army General Staff in 1918, he survived the torpedoing of his troopship. In World War II, he served as a liaison officer with scientists developing the atomic bomb, witnessed the Japanese surrender in the Philippines, and headed the military tribunal...
...part of the reader's amusement in reading these revisionist fantasies lies in arguing with the authors. Knowing a bit of history helps, but the editor tactfully prefaces each chapter with a paragraph or so of authentic history to remind dullards of the actual date, say, of Kaiser Wilhelm's accession to power and what really happened at Sarajevo...