Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of these men is Victor O. Jones '28, who came back to Harvard in 1941 after a long stint as a Boston Globe sportswriter. He had risen to Sports Editor, but felt the need to get out of sports. After his year, he served briefly as a war correspondent, and then moved into the Night Managing Editor's slot at the Globe--a job which makes him top man in the morning edition...
...gravel-voiced Editor Jacquin Leonard Lait thrives on the pace that kills. Last month, when he began his eighth "annual stand-in stint" for Gossip Walter
...Virginia-born Hugh Scott, a Navy commander during the war, saw service in Iceland, Europe and the Pacific, also did a wartime stint as an ordinary seaman on a merchant marine tanker. He was defeated for re-election in 1944, after rousing Democrats to cries of "snobbery" and angering many of his own party with his definition of Republicans: "We are the best stock. We are the people who represent the real grit, brains and backbone of America...
...month still remains before the four-mile stint against Yale on June 25, but that time will definitely not be so easy for the oarsmen. As if practicing for the longest race in American rowing were not enough to worry about, the squad must also fit in practice for the 2000 meter Olympic trials the following week...
Brainard completed the 75-yard stint, which required almost a minute and a half, but when he rose to the surface for air he was unable to breathe, and sank to the bottom unconscious. Henry S. Birdseye '50, loser of the bet, rushed for aid from a pool supervisor, who dove in to recover the victim...