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Yalta and Potsdam were characterized as "two monumental ineptitudes" of international diplomacy last night by De-Witt C. Poole, visiting lecturer in Government, as the Harvard Forum opened its program for the term in Harvard 6 with a discussion of the topic: "What kind of peace of Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, AVC Forums Consider Problems Of International Scope at Opening Meetings | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

...Hemingway novel would gain admittance to the Widener Library stacks only if it were about the University or Cambridge, or presented as a gift "We," said Keyes De Witt Metcalf, University librarian, in an interview yesterday, "are not interested in buying new fiction, except novels that deal with Harvard. Cambridge, or Boston--novels that would be different if they dealt with other cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Librarian, Interested in Research, Gives "Forever Amber" a Brushoff | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

...wheel horse of the Army line is bashful, 225-lb. De Witt ("Tex") Coulter, who plays tackle on offense, switches to center to make long passes back on punt formation, and is one of the best close-up pass-defenders in the business. At the other tackle is 195-lb. Al Nemetz, the only man on the all-conquering 1944 squad, who (his coach said) never made a mistake all season. Captain, guard and off-season wrestler is 190-lb. Jack Green. The ends are manned by 6 ft. 1 in. Hank Foldberg, a music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...Technical Sergeant William L. Brown of De Witt, Ark., it all began in New Guinea, where the 32nd Division commander badly needed a Jap prisoner to question, and promised a furlough as payment. Brown scurried off into the bush, brought back a live Jap, spent his leave in Australia and got married there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Sergeant Brown Goes to Town | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Last week the veil of military secrecy was lifted to reveal such a plane. Rear Admiral De Witt C. Ramsey, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, spoke in a report to Congress of "target aircraft."* The Army's great aviation testing laboratories at Wright Field confirmed his hint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Automatic Flying Machine | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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