Word: peto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown-haired, blue-eyed John Laboon is a tall man for a submarine-6 ft. 5½ in. But the subs are what he picked when he graduated from Annapolis in 1943, and he fought the war in a slightly stooped position on board the Peto, was awarded a Silver Star for "gallantry and intrepidity in action" off Japan when he swam through the shelling of shore batteries to rescue a downed airman...
...Peto was decommissioned in 1946, and Pittsburgh-born Lieut. Laboon turned to the career he had decided on in his cramped bunk under the Pacific: the priesthood (one of his brothers is a priest; three of his sisters are nuns). He began his studies at the Jesuits' St. Isaac Jogues Novitiate in Wernersville, Pa., went on to Woodstock College in Maryland, was ordained in June 1956. After two more years of theological study, his superiors asked Father John Francis Laboon Jr., S.J., if he had any preference in assignment. Said he: "I'd like to get back into...
This second five of Peto Stone, Jeff Eaton, Walter Blanchard, Ed Wade-worth, and Ned Wold has won all its intercollegiate individual matches...
...major reasons for any optimism that Welland may have about the coming season is Captain Charlie Flynn, who was named All-American goalie at the Colorado Springs Championships last year. Flynn, aided by defensemen like Peto Summers and Les Stevens, will be the backbone of a team that should be defensively strong. Whether the offense will be as powerful as it was last year is a question to be decided only by time...
...twelve rediscovered American painters whose work was all but forgotten until 20 years ago. Ranging from colonial New England, where portraits by Robert Feke (1705-1750) were long assumed to be early Copleys, down to fool-the-eye works by William M. Harnett (1848-1892) and John F. Peto (1854-1907), the exhibition shows that U.S. artists in the past scored higher in imagination and craftsmanship than a forgetful country realized...