Word: chosen
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Perhaps less obvious is the fact that the Olympic games will not be held until next summer. Between last June 28, when the Crimson champions assembled in the same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well...
...Family Eyes. To link their children with a passing generation, Gulielma's parents both wrote novels about their youth for family reading only. Their daughters have chosen to write for a larger public; Gulielma's sister, who writes under her pen name, Mary O'Hara, is the author of the best-selling My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead. Gulielma, whose third book is Deer Creek, studied medicine, spent four years in China as a medical missionary, has been staff physician at Manhattan's Barnard College for more than a quarter of a century...
...stroke in the number one shell, Bolles had Frank Cunningham, a 1942 150-pounder with a barrel chest and slim hips, who yesterday was chosen, along with number five, Jud Gale, for a Seattle sportswriter's all-star crew. Cunningham led the Crimson to victories at Annapolis, Princeton, and the Thames, besides at Lake Washington, which gives the Varsity an unofficial national championship...
...Olympic site, chosen last week: Helsinki...
...Lucretia (TIME, June 9), were both dark and tragic. For the new opera, Albert Herring, Librettist Eric Crozier did a slapstick adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's cynical Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, in which an innocent village bumpkin goes off on a wild, sinful night after being chosen King of the May. Britten scored it for chamber orchestra in his familiar brittle, witty and forcefully dissonant style...