Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Leon George Roth, 67, part-time janitor for Cincinnati's Whittier elementary school and the U.S. Army private who on Nov.11, 1918 carried the surrender message that ended World War I; of a stroke; in Springfield, Ohio. As Motorcycle Dispatch Carrier Roth stood shivering in the cold near the railroad car where German and Allied officials had been secretly negotiating the armistice, a captain approached at 5:15 a.m. with a metal message tube to be taken 25 miles to U.S. General John Pershing's headquarters. "Ride like hell," said the officer. "This is one you must...
Just as surprising has been the fall of the Angels. The Los Angeles club has been getting hitting from big Leon Wagner, catcher Bob Rodgers, and one or two others, and its pitching has been passable, if not brilliant. But the club that won all the close ball games last year has been losing them this time around. The relief pitchers have been frittering away leads in the late innings, and some shoddy fielding has hurt, too. The Angels, now in seventh place, have not been playing like contenders...
Christopher W. Beal '63 of Winthrop House and Winchester; Jeffrey P. Eicholz '63 of Adams House and New York City; Leon I. Jacobson '63 of Quincy House and Belmont; Stephen D. Marcus '63 of Winthrop House and Chicago; Andrew J. Nathan '63 of Lowell House and Pound Ridge, New York; David R. Riggs, Jr. '63 of Claverly and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; Norman E. Thruston '63 of Eliot House and Exeter, N.H.; and Edwin A. Winckler '63 of Dudley House and Ingomar...
...Other second-time winners: Composer Samuel Barber for Piano Concerto No. 1, and New York Timesman Anthony Lewis, winner of the $1,000 national reporting prize for his Supreme Court coverage. The rest of the winners: History: Constance McLaughlin Green's Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878; Biography: Leon Edel's two-volume continuation of his life of Henry James, The Conquest of London and The Middle Years; General nonfiction: Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August; News photography: Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas; Cartoon: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing...
Letters: Fiction-William Faulkner The Reivers; non-Fiction-Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August; Poetry-William Carlos Williams, "Pictures from Brueghel"; Biography-Leon Edel, Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London; Vol. III, The Middle Years...