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Opening in London last week, On Borrowed Time was mercilessly damned. The London Times characterized it as "beyond the pale of criticism," the London News Chronicle as "trite, confused, unconvincing, callow, a barefaced, blue-eyed bore...
...when Repeal killed the 18th Amendment, Manhattan theatre critics made an almost unanimous critical suggestion. They suggested that Tobacco Road be relegated to Cain's warehouse, morgue of plays that die aborning. Reviewers wrote off the play's characters as scum, the play itself as "clumsy, rudderless, callow, repulsive...
...Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow's greatest Washington crew to an-other Poughkeepsie victory in 1926, sharing honors with Sanford, Sonju and James Matthews, who now helps Callow at the University of Pennsylvania. At graduation Al Ulbrickson was appointed freshman coach at Washington, was made head coach next year when Rusty Callow left...
...rowing. To avoid overtraining he ceases coaching a week before the major races. His favorite starting-line goad: "It doesn't mean anything to think you're good-go out and prove it." Upon seeing Washington complete a second sweep at Poughkeepsie last week, Rusty Callow, seated nearby on the observation train, grabbed Al Ulbrickson and kissed him. Harvard as well as Yale has a Washing-ton-trained coaching staff this year. From Poughkeepsie, Al Ulbrickson and Rusty
...Callow journeyed to New London, Conn, for the Harvard-Yale Regatta, joined Harvard's young, bespectacled Tom Bolles in the coach's launch as he put the Crimson shells through final practice Spins. Thus fortified, Harvard's varsity next day launched into a low, calm, powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked...