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Harold Lloyd, callow comic of the silents (and star of Preston Sturges' forthcoming The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), was elected Imperial Chief Rabban of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine...
Four years as an "almost good enough" oarsman at the University of Washington under Rusty Callow, now at Penn, were good enough training for Bolles to rate a Freshman coaching berth at his Alma Mater. Nine years as a Washington coach were also enough to convince College athletic officials that Bolles was the man and he was lured away to be Varsity mentor here in 1936. Since then, except for a three-year so journ in the Navy, he has reigned with a battered, grey felt crown on his head, at the Newell Boat House...
Bolles brought the Washington system to the Charles, one he learned from Callow, who in turn coached under the crew-great Hiram Conibear. Reluctantly, Bolles has tried to summarize the system for the layman. "Our stroke is a short body swing," he says; but he adds that the shortness is only relative to length used by oarsmen such as those at Syracuse...
...general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have just invented it, and jolly good Shakespeare...
...crack was effective: it got Haskell out of jury duty. It also got him out of his job. The New York Stock Exchange, which spent $750,000 last year on ads to keep callow lambs from gambling in the market, revoked Haskell's registration. Hutton, which also thinks "gambling" a naughty word, fired him. Said Exchange President Emil Schram: "He has a mistaken conception of the business in which he has been engaged...