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...turns out, this particular rumor stemmed from a training exercise of some combat elements from the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kans...
...nation wanted to take credit for originating this leveler, which was known as the Spanish Lady because of an early publicized outbreak in May 1918 at San Sebastian. Author Collier notes, however, that two months before, 1,100 cases of flu had already been reported at Fort Riley, Kans. "Spanish Lady" stuck, however, probably because it was more romantic than a competing U.S. term...
Third baseman Jim Thomas was the last batter Fahey threw at, as O'Connell sent the Brandeis ace to the showers after Thomas's single brought in another two markers. On came Steve Riley to try to salvage the case, with the Crimson still sporting a pair of runners and no outs...
...Riley pitched well, getting the first batter he faced to pop up and the second to ground to third. Only the Brandeis third baseman John Bianchi was unable to make the play on Leon Goetz's grounder and the resulting error made...
Hard Drugs. At first the Bollinger gang rounded up gamblers and other troublemakers, but then it started its own reign of terror. Some gang members began to smoke pot, and later took to hard drugs, including heroin. Dr. John Riley, the village's only physician, was bullied into supplying them with drugs and forced to give them methadone when the heroin ran low. So persistent were the demands that Riley, 47, was driven to a nervous breakdown. He died of a heart attack this July...