Word: coxswain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Harlow across Soldiers Field road. But back from last year's first boat are stroke Bus Curwen, who is going to put in a couple of months' rowing before reporting to Hal Ulen for swimming, Dave Challinor at seven, Hallett Whitman six, Paul Pennoyer two, and Tom Boynton coxswain...
From last year's Jayvees, who also finished their schedule undefeated, only Reggie Fitz, John Erskine, Gerry Prince, and coxswain Jimmy Ducey are back in College to help plug the holes in the first boat...
...hunchbacked in packs, round-topped in steel helmets. Battalion officers rapped out orders for the landing party to switch its function, defend the beach. The receding rumble of boat engines told them that the Navy crews were going back for more men. Just ahead of General Smith one Navy coxswain, grounded on a bar, called for all the power his engines could give, wrenched the boat free. "God-damit," shouted Howlin' Mad, "he's tearing the guts out of that boat...
...months this raw civilian material - an ex-coxswain of the Harvard crew, a Yale-and Virginia-weaned son of a Manhattan broker, a Rollins College tennis player - had been ground and polished into finished products. Their juts of individualism had been smoothed off, the working equipment of an aviator, the military mold and manners of an officer, fitted...
...Curwen will pace the Crimson hopes in the Varsity race, and Ted Lyman is seated in the powerhouse number five slide. Tom Boynton will again be coxswain, and otherwise the first boat is as usual. Ex-varsity men Colton Wagner, Fred Herter, and Jimmy Ducey will hold the corresponding positions in the Jayvees...