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...Chace is practically a sure thing here if he continues as well as he has been going so far. Possible contenders are Bill Rowe who stroked his Freshman crew two years ago, Henry Curwen who stroked last year's Freshmen but is now tied up in his studies, and Barr Comstock who drew so much attention as stroke of the lively second Freshmen last Spring...
Walt Kernan and Barr Comstock stroked the second and third heavies, who also turned out. Three more Varsity and several Freshmen boats completed the ranks of crews which got out for the first day. At least three more of Bert Haines 150's will be down soon...
...Columbia University's Professor Lyman Bryson, chairman; Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, New School for Social Research Director Alvin S. Johnson, Rockefeller Foundation's former President George E. Vincent, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton and Professor Thomas V. Smith, Wharton School of Finance's Dean Joseph H. Willits, TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce, Emporia Gazette's Editor William Allen White, Fordham's President Robert I. Gannon, former U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde, New York...
...boat stroked by Spike Chace is expected to lead the procession, but it may have a fight on its hands from some of the other combinations. These crews were chosen by lot last Friday and have been practicing together since then. The aggregation paced by Barr Comstock, dynamic stroke of last year's combination crew, has shown some promise, as had Tom Talbot's boatload, and with nine or more crews lined up abreast on the basin course anything may happen...
...Tenn. a year ago came Manhattan Photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe with a portfolio full of photographs and a head bubbling with enthusiasm. In a semiliterate, 57-year-old Negro tombstone carver she had discovered yet another U. S. primitive artist. The Museum of Modern Art's Director Alfred Barr Jr. echoed her enthusiasm, and last week the first one-man show the Museum has ever given a Negro artist opened in a couple of alcoves in the Museum's temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center...