Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Carroll '42 and Stanley O. Beren '41 supported the third term against the opposition of Thomas Matters '43 and Leonard Kent '43 plus 92 per cent of the P. M. beauties. No decision was reached...
...Leonard Cummings has been a steady starter at one end, but the other flank is still a question mark. Tom Bridge, John Teal, and Al Reeves have all seen service, but Teal, a rangy wingman, had the situation in hand last week. At center Autle Mason, while not measuring up to some of his bigger team-mates, has kept his position securely in hand with his accurate snap-backs...
...Leonard Carmichael, president of Tufts University, spoke last night before the American Society of Scientific Workers on the organizational aspects of the enrollment of scientists for national defense...
After 29 years of public life gaunt, gout-ridden Neville Chamberlain retired last week to nurse his failing health. To the once bitterly critical Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, Chamberlain addressed a letter in the tone of the adviser and friend he had become in recent months. It began "Dear Winston," explained his reasons for retiring, concluded "Yours ever." "Dear Winston" replied with equal gallantry in the prose for which history undoubtedly will remember...
...Outstanding was New York City's Benjamin Franklin High School, a crowded, dilapidated school without playgrounds. Three-quarters of its students are foreign, most of them Italians and Puerto Ricans. Its neighborhood, Manhattan's East Harlem and Nazi-infested Yorkville, is a hotbed of racial strife. Principal Leonard Covello organized courses in intercultural understanding, got his pupils discussing whether there were any pure races, whether the "Aryan race" was superior to others. Soon students formed a Friends & Neighbors Club, cleaned two vacant stores next to the school as headquarters, held meetings and dances, started classes for their parents...