Word: pickette
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Robert A. Pickett, eastern intercollegiate 175-pound champion in 1947, was named yesterday to coach the Harvard wrestling team next fall. His appointment was announced last night by Director of Athletics William J. Bingham...
...Pickett, who coached the Syracuse freshmen through two undefeated seasons during the last three years, is a former intercollegiate wrestler at Yale and Syracuse. He won the eastern title while captain of the Orange...
...Pickett '50 acquired her briar when a man tried to break her of smoking cigarettes. She now smokes both...
Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's charge...
...have missed this for anything," while inappropriate, was not tactless; for the observer was in ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when he spoke to Longstreet, that he was viewing Pickett's retreat. To quote Fremantle: "When I got close up to General Longstreet, I saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked to the general that 'I wouldn't have...