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...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--The junior varsity football team concluded its season on an unhappy note today, losing decisively to Yale, 22-0, in a cold and lonely corner of water-soaked DeWitt Cuyler Field...
Inspired rather than demoralized by their bad break, Amherst roared back. After Adams saved a goal with a diving catch, center-halfback Larry Dewitt floated a three-quarter-speed direct penalty kick past the Harvard goalie to tie the game...
Died. Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, 72, vintage naval aviator who bossed the Bureau of Aeronautics during World War II, served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1946 to 1948; of Parkinson's disease: in Philadelphia...
Then the team began to click, thanks largely to some astute trades pulled off by moonfaced General Manager Bill DeWitt, a wily merchandiser of men who joined the Reds only last fall. In a complex deal, DeWitt got Milwaukee Pitcher Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to make the majors, and Chicago White Sox Third Baseman Gene Freese. Late in April, he got peppery Second Baseman Don Blasingame from San Francisco. That seemed to do the trick. Three days after Blasingame arrived, the Reds took off on a nine-game winning streak, by the end of May were in first...
...Doug Cray was assigned to interview visiting Soviet Scientist Leonid I. Sedov, who had just been interviewed over a Boston TV show and had set off for Brown University in Providence. Correspondent Cray got in touch with Sedov's Russian translator on the program, Harvard's Nicholas DeWitt, arranged for him to come along, and hired a Cadillac ("a sickly marlin blue") to speed off to Providence. Sedov by then was about to emplane for New York. Cray persuaded him to ride instead in the Cadillac "in utter peace and quiet." Sedov produced a couple of nuggets...