Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temporarily seated in the Varsity shell are: stroke, Toby Ross; seven, Hal Grant; six, Miles Wambaugh; five, Rod Perkins; four, Bob Macnamara; three, Tom Haymond; two, John Kettelle; and bow, Pete Roll. Coxing the boat is veteran Dan Paul...
...late Raymond Clapper had New Deal leanings that did not blind him to New Deal faults; his prose was not always exciting but his words were usually scrupulously fair. These qualities are shared by his good friend Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 48, Washington bureau chief since 1934 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose kettledrum voice frequently rattles the gimcracks on Franklin Roosevelt's desk when he rumbles out an embarrassing question at Presidential press conferences...
Last week ex-Rhodes Scholar Pete Brandt was unanimously chosen by fellow newsmen to be the first recipient of the $500 annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for the fairness and quality of his Washington reporting. He got the prize at a White House Correspondents' dinner attended by Franklin Roosevelt. The President had not been told the winner's name beforehand, only that it was someone he liked and respected. Said he, when Brandt's name was announced: "I'd have voted the same...
Simultaneous with the release of the Varsity schedule this week, it was learned that vaulter Tom Howard had undergone an appendectomy which will keep him out of action until early May. Howard cleared 12 feet in prep school. Mikkola will now have to rely on Pete Harwood, whose best performance to date is 12 feet 6 inches...
Strongest event at the moment appears to the pole-vault, where the Crimson has a handful of good men headed by Pete Harwood. Confined to limited practice on the hard-surfaced, pitless, Briggs Cage floor during the recent indoor season, Harwood was still undefeated...