Word: leavitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Director Max Leavitt of the Lemonade Opera Company, who in three years had dug up such old and new operas as Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking...
...Boatings, Varsity: Rouner, stroke; Iselin, seven; Strong, six; Anderson, five; Felt, four; Reynolds, three; Asp, two; Scully, bow; Leavitt...
Using a 36-to-the-minute stroke, Princeton spurted into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open...
Other men in Cambridge during recess will be: Charlie Rimmer, Art Rouner, Bill Saltonstall, Dave Stone, Frank Strong, Bob Taggart, Mike Thompson, Fletcher Tomic, Alex Aldrich, Russell Bath, George Furness, Bill Leavitt, and George Walker...
...number of tables will be in proportion to the pinball machines that can be squeezed in around the wall space. These will be in addition to cigarette vendors and soda coolers. The whole business will be kept open until midnight, six hours later than the similar emporium located above Leavitt and Peirce...