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...pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock and his brother Richard emigrated to the U. S., set themselves up in the shell-game at Vancouver, B. C. near a good supply of cedar. In 1912, Coach Connibear discovered them, induced them, to move to the Washington campus. Coach Connibear died in 1917, when he fell from a plum tree, broke his neck. By that time Pocock shells and the Connibear system of rowing were becoming the U. S. standards...
...stop at Indiana's New Harmony (TIME. March 22, p. 91), for Iowa's Amanas (East, West, North, South, and Big and Little) cover thousands of acres of most fertile Iowa soil, an artificial lake, and fill hundreds of unpainted frame houses, shops and barns, near Cedar Rapids...
...religio-communist societies which dotted the U. S. in the early 19th Century, only the Amana colony, in the Iowa River Valley 18 mi. southwest of Cedar Rapids, remained nourishing in the 20th. In 1932 Amana modified its communal way of life, adopted a form of co-operative capitalism...
With tubular aluminum bracing and riggers, the 61 foot cedar shell weighs only 285 pounds, less than five pounds to the foot and 15 pounds lighter than the old Varsity shell. It is rigged in the manner of Washington shells, according to the specifications of Head Coach Tom Bolles., who is obviously pleased with the result. En route from Seattle the boat occupied a whole express car, being slung from the ceiling to prevent jarring...
...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...