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...Princeton finger men accounting the game reported that he was the hardest-fighting man in the Harvard line. His name is Ernie Sergeant, and he will sit in the stands tomorrow and never wear a major H, because a head injury has ended football...
Frail old Warren Hatcher heaved a sigh of relief one evening last week, put away a heavy bundle of 13 black rods surmounted by a silver eagle, and went home to dinner. And the sigh heaved by quiet Mr. Hatcher, Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in charge of the Mace,* echoed the sentiments of many a U. S. citizen...
...Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished Flying Medal (for non-Commissioned officers). Eldest of the medalists was 26, youngest...
...announced yesterday that the football squad has lest the services of Ernie Sergeant, aggressive watch arm guard. On the advice of Harvard doctors, the diminutive Senior was forced to cut short his grid activities because of recurring headaches...
...letting their audiences down at this stage of the game. They have cooked up a show in the best traditions of his adventure, complete with a fort in the desert and thousands and thousands of Arabs biting the dust. There's the character of the hard-as-nails Army sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There's the funeral pyre and the garrison of corpses,--all the dramatic and vivid scenes which can be wrung out of Wren...