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...Dick Leavitt White Plains...
Problem: How do you coach eighty girls who have never rowed before and never seem to be free at the same time? Solution: Spend your evenings drawing up schedules and post them in the window of the Leavitt and Peirce Tobacco Shop. Spend eight hours a day on the water, coxing("In the beginning, all John saw was arms and legs doing the wrong thing," says Charlotte Crane). Then, listen to eighty girls complaining when the schedule runs late. On occasion, allow them to attack you with water pistols. --From an account of the Radcliffe Varsity Crew's journey...
Lawyer David Leavitt, who argued the case for the American foster parents, insisted that neither was at issue. He observed: "It is not enough under the laws of California to have simply given birth . . . The custody case, my argument and the judge's decision were all based entirely upon the actual relationship between the children and their mother, and nothing else. The decision would have been identical whether the mother had lived in Switzerland or India or Oshkosh...
...JAMES P. LEAVITT...
...Coach Jack Barnaby lit his victory cigar an hour early on Saturday as the Harvard tennis team glided past Williams, 6-3. Cigars are not a Barnaby tradition, but winning is, and the Leavitt and Pierce special was in celebration of Barnaby's 300th tennis victory...