Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...junior, Nelson ran the ball only one time on offense, and earned a reputation as a defensive only. This year Nelson surprised everybody, grabbing the starting berth is early season practice. One Boston paper ran his story; "Jim Nelson: From Stand-in to Stand...
...Have you plenty of cigars, Jim?" asked Rear Admiral Kenmore McManes, commandant of the Sixth Naval District. Replied Commander James B. Osborn, between puffs on his stogie: "I've got 15 boxes. Admiral.'' Moments later, as a Navy band whomped up a rousing Sousa march on a closely guarded pier at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard dock. Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions-from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles-had been stored. Then Skipper Osborn bellowed a time-honored order: "Cast...
Five boys on the first string that defeated Harvard have academic scholarships. (Some 35% of the Yale undergraduate body has scholarship aid.) Top scholar on the team is End Jim Pappas, who has an average of 91 in premed...
They are narrated by Jim Malloy (who appeared in earlier novels), an O'Hara-like man who has been a reporter and pressagent and who, in middle age, is a successful novelist. In the first volume, The Girl on the Baggage Truck, he is a major character, a young publicity man who avoids, mostly by luck, becoming the pet poodle of an aging actress. Malloy is an observer in the next book, Imagine Kissing Pete, concerning an adulterous marriage that worked better than expected. There is a hint in this one of sentimentality, a quality to which the 20th...
...successor to James has been Leading candidates for the post proudly are Alva Kelley, presently coach at Colgate, and Jim Ostendarp, now each at Amherst...