Word: platts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fall crew showed the greatest improvement over the previous year and sophomores Geoffrey Platt and Johnny gates made the first boat, while Barrette scudder stroked the third. Four 1927 freshman regulars--Richard Thomas, Joseph MacKinnon, Hiram Gans, and Walter Tresvett--made the soccer team which had a four win, four loss season. Individually, John S. Malick placed first in the 100 yard dash and the 440 in the University fall track meet...
...first time in Harvard baseball history that the Crimson met Yale with more defeats that victories. Yale then trounced Harvard, 25 to 15 and 18 to 4. In track Haggerty took a first in the ICAA mile run-but the favored team later lost to Yale. Sophomores Geoffrey Platt and Robert Ladd tried hard, but the crew lost to Yale again...
...weather grew warmer, the crews started rowing on the Charles, and the baseball team, thanks largely to Isadore Zarakov's booming bat, swept to the Big Three championship. The crew, however, was not no fortunate, having a mediocre season. Geoffrey Platt was chosen to captain the crew for '27, On the cinders, the track team fell to Yale by only one-third of a point and came in third behind Southern California the IC AA meet, held at Soldiers field. The polo squad, with Royal Burnett at three and R. B. Pinkerton as captain, won the Eastern title...
Bill Leavitt's freshmen are also up against a favored undefeated Platt eight. Leavitt has not changed his boating, and feels his crew has improves gradually since the start of the year...
Back in Washington as Assistant Secretary of State, Welles arranged for U.S. recognition, a quota for Cuba in the U.S. sugar market, and abrogation of the odious Platt Amendment, which gave the U.S. the right to intervene to keep order in Cuba. Though Batista had endless trouble finding the right President (he tried out seven in seven years, and finally took over the job himself), order and prosperity gradually returned to the island...