Word: leh
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Full colors, the ruggers' equivalent of varsity letters, went to Richard L. Bowditon '52, Thomas B. Calhoun GB 1, James P. Callahan '53, Thomas L. Carter '52. Peter A. Hager GB 1, Peter LeH. Irving GM 3, Pierre J. Lelandais '52, William N. Letson '52, Bradford P. Lundborg GM 4, Patrick S. Parker GB 1, Richard Salisbury GSAS 1, and Jeffrey R. Power GB 1. Fourteen half colors were also awarded...
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Stagg was in Leh, the ancient capital of Tibet. He quickly went to London to join his regiment, the "Devil's Own" (Inns of Court) Squadron, which was recruited chiefly among lawyers, but he was too old for active service. The Foreign Office sent him instead to Havana as Honorary Attache, under Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes. He was in Cuba for a year and spent the rest of the war in Bogata, assigned to "confidential operations...