Word: leavitte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Removal of the 16-oar training boat from active use today symbolizes, in effect, the end of the first stage of training for the Yardlings and of the weeding out process among crew candidates. Today freshman coach Bill Leavitt has posted in the window of Leavitt & Peirce a list of those rowers and coxswains who survived the final fall crew...
Thursday-The U.S. tries a third con voy. From the convoy leader, U.S.S. Gregory, TIME & LIFE'S Scot Leavitt reports: By 3 p.m. Destroyer Squadron 17 is in position off Quemoy, three of its ships 15 miles offshore, and Gregory just over three. "I don't think they dare come near us," says Gregory's skipper, Commander Felix G. Young, who has served in destroyers for 17 of his 27 years in the Navy. "But I've been shot at by Germans and Italians and Japanese and Russians and Chinese Communists before. If we get into...
...though he is hardened against the lung-searing pain of the mile, Australia's running machine may not be immune to the soft lure of the dollar. Last week a U.S. sports promoter named Leo Leavitt bragged that he had offered Elliott $248,000 for a two-year tour as a pro. Elliott admitted that he was thinking over the offer: "Wouldn't you if $248,000 were at stake?" But sportsmen Down Under took heart from Elliott's phoned statement to the Brisbane Sunday Mail: "I have my sights on a place on the Australian team...
Lost Innocence. Recollections of Leavitt & Peirce not only are effusive ("At least one tiny island on a fluxing planet has remained the way one likes to remember it"), but like smoke, they drift far from the source. Novelist Walter D. Edmonds ('26) begins with the admission that he broke a filial promise not to smoke until he was 21 when "some Jesuitical character pointed out to me that I was already in my twenty-first year," rambles on to recall that the resulting fumes possessed a curious musk. "Some mornings I awoke to find as many as ten cats...
...Lewis Gannett ('13): "I was the pure young man from a Western New York minister's home, who had never smoked more than a corn-silk cigarette, and tried to hold the freshman beer night ... to ginger ale. One learned." Artist Waldo Peirce ('07) admits that "Leavitt & Peirce was probably one of the reasons it took me five years to get a degree, though the B in A.B. didn't stand for billiards...