Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity crew season is definitely promising with more than three full crews of good material on the river now. Rivalry will be keen for all but a few positions and Bolles expects to have a hard time deciding which among so many excellent oarsmen finally go into the first boat. At present nothing is definite, for the line-ups yesterday were much different from the ones of Tuesday and Bolles plans to continue trying the first three boat loads in all possible combinations...
Dudley Talbot at present leads the pack in the close number three race with Pete Brooks and Phil Hallowell close behind. Hallowell has been sick for quite a while and may have some trouble getting back in the running but he was good on the Freshman boat a year ago. Dick Both is also coming along well and may do a lot before the last judgement comes...
...Pete Goodwin has a chance and Pete Richards has been working overtime all winter in the tank, with an eye on this oar. The bow seat is wide open with at least six possibilities of almost equal ability. This is easily the most uncertain position in the boat. Dick Ninde probably leads here if anyone does but he is closely pursued by Dave Scull, Henry Locke and Sophomore Bayard Dillingham. Perhaps less likely are John Rowe and John Bremer also of last season's Freshmen...
...twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs in an aircraft drydock; 4) it possesses a full-size flight of stairs. It also has the world's most powerful airplane engines, four 1,500-h.p. twin-row, 14-cyl. Wright-Cyclones...
Easy, charming, Bond-Streetish, Lons dale frequently forgets things, frequently changes his mind. He will invite people to lunch, sail for Europe, remember on the boat, cable his guests to charge the lunch to him. He will cross the Atlantic to at tend rehearsals in Manhattan, suddenly take the first boat back. Once he embarked for the U. S. at Southampton, got off again at Cherbourg...