Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene of the splash: an 18-ft. alligator usually found lolling there. Later, when his guide careened the boat in too tight a 180° turn, all aboard got dipped. Muttered plucky Dick Nixon, snookless, bedraggled and amazed: "I didn't think it could happen twice...
Wilde will send a boat that has only three experienced oarsmen against the Engineers. Everyone else, including stroke Bob Foley, will be rowing in their first crew race. But Wilde's green crew looked close to mid-season form in its last time trial, finishing within a few seconds of the varsity's best clocking this season...
Viggo Bertelsen, Larry Coolidge, and George Krumbhaar are the three veterans around whom Wilde has built his crew. Coolidge, who rowed in a four at Groton, will be in the number three seat. Krumbhaar follows Coolidge at four, and pulled on the first boat at Middlesex for three years...
...balance the greener men on the boat Wilde is counting on two of his lighter oars, Dick Timpson and Barry Bingham. Neither has rowed on a varsity boat before, but Timpson, who will start at three, competed for Eton and rowed with Cabot as a freshman last spring. Bingham, like Wilde, is one of the University's best single scullars and raced against Olympic champion Johnny Kelley in a double at the American Henley Regatta in Philadelphia last spring...
...three set match, Jerry Hunt, Presbyterian's number three, boat Brooks Harris, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1. With the score tied four all in the second set, Harris, playing aggressively, took the next two games and the first game of the third set, but Hunt rallied to win six straight, ending the match with a clean...