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...Crew coach Tom Bolles has all available fingers crossed today lost the malady which deprived the two first crews of three oarsmen yesterday turns out to be an epidemic of measles. A change in diagnosis from the German to the regular variety of the spots has already counted Varsity stroke Thorvald Ross out of the regatta on the Severn next Saturday...
...unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is building for the U.S. Army. Fully loaded, it will weigh 104½ tons v. 70-for Boeing's B29. The wing is 7½ feet thick, big enough to house: 1) a 15-man crew; 2) four 3,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines in the wing, with eight-bladed dual-rotation propellers in the trailing edge; 3) enough fuel to fly 10,000 miles nonstop; 4) a bomb load guesstimated as high as 25 tons. By eliminating fuselage and tail surfaces, whose air resistance slows down...
Princeton is the only competitor tested so far this year. Last Saturday they trailed Pennsylvania and Rutgers by 24 seconds on Lake Carnegie. Not inexperience, but war-imposed inactivity plagues Tiger coach Deles Schoch, since his entire squad is composed of returning veterans. Dormant since 1943. Princeton crew was resumed last year on an informal basis...
Formerly the nation's only starboard stroked crew, Old Nasau has this year returned to more orthodox ways, will rely on outdistancing the opposition, not confusing them...
Dunster has already clinched its section of the hardball league and will play either Adams or Kirkland in the finals next week. Today at 4:30 o'clock the House crews will race on the Charles in the only intramural crew race planned...