Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced by K. Blake Dennison, sculling coach, are a series of sculling races to be held on the Charles, Monday, May 20. These races, which will be divided into wherry, comp, and single groups, with the progressive classes of novice, junior, and expert, will be held above the Cottage Farm Bridge...
...Blake Dennison, sculling coach, hopes to simplify the system of classification so that next spring there will be but three types of boats in the graduating system, namely wherries, compromises, and single shells...
Constantly in progress during the summer is the repairing, refurbishing and improving of design of the boats in the boathouse. Because the boats sometimes go out 20 or 30 times in a day, Blake has been able to study effects of wear, and to develop some revolutionary improvements to add strength without weight...
Each winter when the ice has closed the river, Blake and his assistants are at work in the workshops, turning out four new boats per winter, and repairing the ravages of the summer's wear on those which have been used...
...hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel...