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Charlie has two good men for every position in the first boat, but expects to son a sharp competition for the number seven, oar, the weakest link at present. Phil Bray's graduation and Twining's failure to return from the Freshman boat leave it weak. At present Len Eliel and Boene Watson are the most eligible contestants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITESIDE WILL PLACE VARSITY IN LEVIATHAN | 2/25/1936 | See Source »

Knuckle Down? Having raised this issue, honest Broker Laval was visited daily thereafter by cultivated but crusty Sir George Clerk. This be-monocled British Ambassador looks and acts very much like the sort of diplomat Gilbert & Sullivan set to the bray of trumpets. So frequent and so overbearing were Sir George's calls that tempers were progressively lost until extreme London newsorgans like the Star began to report that, unless M. Laval knuckled down completely to His Majesty's Government, he would soon find himself forced to resign as Premier of France because all Frenchmen would see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: High Diplomacy, with Trumpets | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...undefeated Penn crew has beaten Yale and Princeton, both of whom were victors over the Crimson, while Navy has taken the shirts of Cornell also winner against Harvard. The seatings remain unchanged: stroke, Robert Cutler; 7, Bray; 6, Keyes; 5, Watson; 4, Saltonstall; 3, Eliel; 2, Drury; bow, Clark; cox, Bennett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY EIGHT TO MEET PENN, NAVY TOMORROW | 5/24/1935 | See Source »

...Varsity seatings will be: stroke, Robert Cutler; 7, Bray; 6, Keyes; 5, Watson; 4, Saltonstall; 3, Eliel; 2, Drury; bow, Clark; cox, Bennett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BOATMEN ROW AT COAST THIS SUMMER | 5/23/1935 | See Source »

After making several changes yesterday, Coach Charlie Whiteside picked Catler's boat as his Varsity and the shell stroked by Frsuers as his Jayvee crew. The seatings, which he says will remain substantially, unchanged from now on, are: stroke, Cutler; 7, Watson; 6, Keyes; 5, Bray; 4, Saltonstall; 3, Ellel; 2, Drury: bow, Clark; cox, Hunter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Crew Seatings | 5/10/1935 | See Source »

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