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...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...
When Trammell was a boy down in Marietta, Georgia, he was known formally as Leander Niles, informally as Pud. A member of a Mark Twainish clan of moppets called the "Dirty Dozen," Pud was a bit on the model side until the boys persuaded him to smoke a few cigarets, toss off a couple of noggins of beer. At 18, he was sent to Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles...
John Studebaker, key man in this key job, is lean, spectacled, a wiry bundle of energy. Iowa-born, a star all-round high-school and college athlete who worked his way through Leander Clark College as a union bricklayer, he was national director of the Junior Red Cross in World War I. As an educator, he distinguished himself chiefly by organizing public forums where adults might discuss problems of democracy, first as Superintendent of Schools in Des Moines, since 1934 as U. S. Commissioner...
Inspired by a tract called "The First Dancing Lesson" (Leander Smith, 808 Avenue E., Council Bluffs, Iowa), and grged on by what they described as the "moral degeneracy" of the examination period, Clarence L. Alexander '40 Paul J. Goldheizer '40, and Joseph W. Barber '40, have begun an intensive campaign...
Only twice in the past has a Harvard boat ventured overseas to take part in the traditional Henley. The first time was in 1914 when Herrick coached a jayvee eight, stroked by Leverett Saltonstall '14, which captured the cup by winning over Leander, Winnipeg and the Union Boat Club of Boston. In 1931 the Third Varsity entered the competition but were not successful...