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...later at the University of Portland and Spokane's Gonzaga University, Mike played baseball (first base), gave up a chance to turn pro, went on instead to Notre Dame for his law degree. After that, he put in 3-½-years on Navy desk duty, was discharged a yeoman third class...
Reinforcements were the last things Anderson could expect from the Administration in Washington. The Secretary of War was John B. Floyd, a Virginian who at that moment was busy arranging to sell 10,000 U.S. muskets to seceding South Carolina for $2 apiece. Floyd later performed yeoman service for the Union by becoming one of the Confederacy's most inept generals, but now he was interested only in making sure that U.S. forces in Charleston were not strengthened by so much as a spitball. That fitted in perfectly with the policy of President James Buchanan, the "Old Public Functionary...
...evasion, was smothered by four direct hits. And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan. "The game was up," a Japanese yeoman recalled. "The members of the staff looked at one another, their mouths tight shut. Indescribable emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin...
Dermatologist Robert MacKenna has performed a yeoman's service for the much-maligned teenager by calling attention to one of his real problems-acne-and its serious aspects...
...even with Harrington's performance, the victories are team ones, with veterans Bob Hastings, Bob Barnett, Ike Canty, and Dick Hurley playing their best ever, and junior Dick Woolston consistently hitting in double figures. In addition, 6-8 sophomore Griff McClellan has come off the bench to do a yeoman's job on the backboards. When Canty fouled out Saturday, with the teams no more than two points apart, McClellan filled in unexpectedly well...