Word: coxswain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred pound of blonde Radcliffe Freshman got a watery heave-he at the hands of eight unsympathetic Leverett oarsmen Tuesday when she offered the Bunny boat her willing services as a distaff coxswain...
...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 as a new coxswain...
Stroke-our Frank Cunningham, who pulled the crew to its major sprint victories at Princeton and Seattle and earned an all-star rating by a Seattle sportswriter, will have graduated both from the College and his little seat facing the coxswain. Gone too will be Captain Bob Stone, who was at four, and Stu Clark, at two. Significantly, from the balanced-boat angle, all three are starboard oarsmen...
...regard to your article "Pioneers" under Miscellany [TIME, June 9], I would say that the two Long Beach, Calif, policemen were about four years too late to be classed as pioneers for making an amphibious arrest of a tipsy driver, or should we say coxswain...
Navy was caught napping at the start, got off last. It took a quarter mile at 34 strokes a minute to work into second place. Then pace-making California faltered, and Navy took the lead. Half a mile from the finish, Cornell began its sprint. Navy's Coxswain John Gartland called for a rise in the beat. It went up to 34, to 36. For the last 20 strokes, Navy hit a brisk 42 beat. They were less than half a boat length ahead at the finish when Coxswain Gartland gave "Easy all" to his crew...