Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began, as so many things begin, over cocktails. The River Valley Club is an unpretentious looking boat club on the Ohio, but its members are the rich and elite of Louisville, Ky. who tie up their cruisers there to drink and talk and play all-night poker. Church for most of them used to be a place for christenings, weddings and funerals-and perhaps for a service on Christmas and Easter. But somehow, during the war, the River Valley members began to find themselves talking about how the center of each community should be its church-and there...
...Owsley's Fire Escape." For more than two years Rector Clingman's congregation met in their former Negro church with its old memorial windows ("Given in Memory of Big Boy Howard"). Two potbellied stoves heated it, none too well; Joe Heitzman's boat rental place next door brought confused customers stumbling into church. This spring the congregation moved into a new $200,000 church. The members voted to name it "St. Francis-in-the-Fields"-though not before some friends of Distiller Owsley Brown ("Old Forester" and other brands) had needled him with such suggestions as "Owsley...
...modern new men's dorm, a bunch of ex-G.I.s played an endless card game called Schafskopf. In the Rathskellar (see cut) of the $2,650,000 Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation on his slide rule; and a tired-looking veteran's wife smacked her squalling youngster smartly on his bottom. Alumnus John Muir wouldn...
...dozen syringes of ephedrine couldn't have produced any closer games than the three which started off House A League basketball today in the Blockhouse. Kirkland boat Winthrop by three points, 30 to 27; Eliot won by two points over Adams, 38 to 36; and Dunster was extended into overtime to boat Dudley...
...Squash team lost two previous matches to the Union Boat Club, 4-1 and 3-2, and beat the highly-rated McGill squas 7-0. MIT and Williams teams are among the team's pre-Christmas schedule...