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...Funds from undisclosed sources have been appropriated for a Courtney Courtney Peabody memorial prize for scholarship to be awarded annually to the graduating senior considered "most fully endowed with those qualities best exemplified by Courtney Courtney Peabody '35." The gift of fifty dollars will be for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents...
...body splattered with black, sticky mud lay off the road near San Stephano on a tiny West Indian isle--flabby, middle-aged, and wet from an afternoon thunder-storm. Courtney Courtney Peabody had drowned in the rain. A half-finished letter found in his hotel room contained his last recorded words: "Gee, mom, it's hot as hell down here. When can I come home?" The letter, like Courtney's life, must remain uncompleted...
...Courtney's Harvard career has left a residue of memories among his contemporaries. His classmate Rudyard Ginsberg remarked that "Courtney was by far the most stupid graduate I knew" and further conjectured that "there were few less intelligent among those who failed." That Courtney ever arrived at Harvard has remained a source of awe and wonder. His parents deny that he was an imposter; the Admissions Committee rejects the rumor that a letter of acceptance was sent him by mistake. The Deans in general refuse to be approached on "the Peabody matter...
...institution of the Courtney Courtney Peabody prize for extraordinary achievement by an undergraduate was announced last night. The winner will be determined at a closed meeting of the Winthrop Senior Common Room early next week. Peabody's family decided that a fifty dollar prize for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents, would the most fitting memorial for Courtney Courtney, who graduated at the very bottom of a class of 863 back in 1935. Courtney met his tragic end last May, when he failed to keep his mouth closed during a tropical thunderstorm...
...like old home week at Soldiers Field. Bob Rittenburg, a Harvard track immortal ever since his 26-point performance against Yale in 1955, returned to work himself back into shape. Charley Jenkins, the reigning Olympic 400-meter champion and an old habitue of Soldiers Field, was back, and Tom Courtney, Olympic 800-meter king and now an assistant varsity coach, breezed through a 50.8 440 early in the week...