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...Philadelphia, Navy's Olympic Champion crew, still almost intact from its 1952 triumph at Helsinki, showed its wake to two of the East's undefeated eights, beating Pennsylvania by a length, Harvard by two, for their 24th straight victory...
Here the precision Navy crew, raising its beat to 38, fought off Penn's powerful surge and rowed easily to its 24th victory in front of a packed pavilion. During the body of the race Crimson timing was good and blade work clean, though the crew's high cadence killed part of its normal swing at the catch and recovery and made the oarsmen too tired for an effective final...
...Slalom is unusual in that it allows alumni, as well as undergraduates of the two colleges to compete. Graham Taylor '49, the varsity coach, finished 24th...
...Harvard last spring, he put on a scarlet waistcoat and a red, white & blue tie as just one more old grad, 25 years out. But whenever he opened his mouth, reporters jotted down notes, and wherever he went, flashbulbs flared. Nathan Pusey had just been named the 24th president of Harvard University. He was an apparent nobody, plucked out of nowhere, who had never even written a book. His classmates managed to work him into their rhymes: "Nate" was "great," and so, of course, was " '28." But the rest of Harvard had another chant...
...uglier word. Even in the Korean war-nearly three years after President Truman's 1948 order for armed-forces equality-the classic story was of Negroes who fled from battle, then huddled around a campfire singing The Bug Out Boogie, the "official song of the [Negro] 24th Infantry Regiment...