Word: leitnerism
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...Alfred Leitner, instructor in Medicine, was killed in an airplane crash near Oakridge, Tenn., Thursday night...
...side for Harvard, Howie Durfee (137), Brian Conley (147) and Ben Brooks (191) won decisions that set up Chace's last-minute heroics. Durfee tripped rugged Chuck Christensen, 9-7; Conley turned in a workmanlike 4-2 win over Bob Mayer: and Brooks came from behind to edge Jack Leitner...
...first rank. The luck of the draw gave Kidd first crack at the 10,236-ft. course-and when he flashed past the finish line in 2 min. 21.82 sec., almost 1½ sec. better than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix cut almost a second off that. Then, high above the tree line a grinning, brown-haired Austrian stabbed at the snow with his ski poles and began...
Next morning the General's outburst gave Secretary of State Hull an uncomfortable half hour. Herr Rudolf Leitner, German Chargé D'Affaires, acting for Ambassador Luther who is at home in Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson...
...Chargé Leitner cabled that answer to Berlin, knowing that it would not sit well on the Wilhelmstrasse, for Adolf Hitler does not believe in "speaking as an individual...