Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After booking steamer reservations to England for himself and three blonde secretaries, Thomas Franklyn (''Tommy") Manville Jr., playboy asbestos heir, canceled the trip, explaining that he had reneged, not because his estranged fourth wife Marcelle Edwards had reserved passage on the same boat, but because he had been informed "indirectly" that the British Government objected to his presence during the Coronation. "Moral turpitude and things like that," said...
...were acting on radio and posing for ads in their spare time. Their jobs were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat and THE MARCH OF TIME. After Anthony Adverse, Bobby Mauch was cast in Penrod & Sam. Again he and Billy took turns acting and. standing-in. When Warners drew up a new contract, Mrs. Mauch refused to let one son perform as stand-in for the other on the ground that...
...Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime Princeton physics professor, the Compton Cup for the first four years was won regularly by Princeton. Last week this embarrassing situation ended when Harvard's varsity boat, smoothly stroked by Jim Chace, slipped across the finish line a length ahead of Princeton and five ahead...
...three other races on the program, Princeton's only winners were its freshmen. Harvard's junior varsity (its only other entry) won by a length. Little M. I. T., which lacks the facilities of its two rivals, beat Princeton's 150-lb. boat by three feet. Crew critics agreed that Coach Bolles, whom Harvard hired after his Washington freshmen beat five other freshmen crews at the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June, had brought Washington efficiency to Harvard's boat in record time, anticipated an even livelier rivalry than usual this June at New London when Coach Bolles...
...onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost all U. S. eight-oared shells, made himself the "father of Washington rowing" and a grandfather of U. S. crew racing...