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Under a light drizzle, play began at Annapolis on Saturday. Levin faced Midshipman Bobby Cowan, ranked fourth in the Middle Atlantic states. Levin lost, 6-2, 6-1, breaking two rackets in the first set. A heavy downpour halted play before any other matches were completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Returns from South, Prepares for MIT, Amherst, Penn | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

...Post published Kenneth Roberts and Stephen Vincent Benét, Agatha Christie and Erie Stanley Gardner, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Norman Raine's Tugboat Annie eternally beat rival Captain Bullwinkle to salvage jobs in Puget Sound; C. S. Forester's Midshipman (or Captain, or Commodore) Hornblower managed to leave himself in such parlous plight at the end of each installment that Post readers could not wait to get at next week's issue. Lorimer paid beautifully: $6,000 for a short story, $60,000 for a serial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...decided to report to Annapolis authorities. They did so despite the fact that the school's honor code, unlike those at the Air Force Academy and West Point, does not require students to report rule breaking by others. Nonetheless, most of the middies take pot seriously. "Drugs." explains Midshipman Maurice McNeil, "affect a man's judgment-and judgment is the big thing with a man in service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Academies: Pot at Annapolis | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

Team manager Steve Burbank found Gonzalez a new pair, and coach Jack Barnaby arrived with a broom. While the Harvard star gingerly tested the new shoes, Midshipman Beard seized the broom and swept the court floor ferociously...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Racquetmen Swamp Middies, 9-0, For Ninth Straight Win of Season | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Harvard Policy Committee, secretary; Senior Associate; Crimson Key, athletics committee chairman; freshman crew; Harvard Yacht Club; N.R.O.T.C., Company Commander, drill team, Naval Science Forum, Sailing Club, Taffrail Club and Midshipman Activities Council; Kirkland House Social Committee; Dorm Crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1968 Harvard Class Marshal Candidates | 11/15/1967 | See Source »

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