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...officers from Radcliffe enjoyed a picnic last Sunday afternoon in front of Briggs Hall. Music from recordings was audible throughout the grounds by means of a public address system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...
Aside from easy strafing missions against locomotives and bridges in Burma, there was not much to do except play badminton, lounge on big airy porches in the old stilted tea planters' houses, and stare out across the endless sultry tea fields. The enlisted men took to teaching Assamese kids American. They all wished the Japs would attack. Their C.O., Colonel Homer Leroy Sanders, had said: "If the Japs come over, all they will need is a one-way ticket...
Lieutenant Commander William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, U.S.N., was the skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
...Everts, 'University tennis champion, had a busy time this weekend in the Essex County Tennis Tournament at the North Andover Country Club; reaching the final he was defeated 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, by Dave Freeman, 1m, National Badminton champion and holder of many tennis titles...
Segura playing his first round match, had too much experience and speed for Everts and he won in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. Today he will meet Dave Freeman, California tennis player and national badminton champion...