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Harvard has its Murphy Scholarship and has usually been able to find a bright little Murphy to win the stipend. But someone named Leavenworth once gave Yale a chunk of fortune to ensure the blessings of the higher education for his descendants-and Yale is stuck without a Leaven-worth...
This week the Elihus grew desperate and inserted and advertisement in the New York Times. ". ... Yielding $420 per annum . . . it is open to all male students with the surname of Leavenworth...
Because they suspected a fellow prisoner of war of writing a "traitorous" note, five sullen and shifty-eyed Nazis had brutally clubbed him to death; an Army court-martial had swiftly found them guilty. At Fort Leavenworth last week they were hanged for their crime...
...days later, despite the Army's protestations that all is reasonably well in the prisoner-of-war camps, authorities at Fort Leavenworth hanged two more Nazis for the same kind of crime-murder of a fellow prisoner...
Well aware of modern war's complexity, West Point does not attempt to turn out a finished soldier. Specialization is left to Army branch schools, civilian graduate schools, and the service graduate schools, including the General Staff School at Leavenworth and the Army War College in Washington. West Point is the liberal arts college of U.S. soldiering...