Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the New York sportswriters reported the results of the Eastern Intercollegiate sprint regatta at Princeton six weeks ago, they led their stories with a quote from Coach Tom Bolles, "This is she best crew I have ever coached at Harvard...
...West Coast entrants, Washington and California, were not what they once were in the days when they monopolized Poughkeepsie. Navy's shrewd Coach Buck Walsh saw only one likely rival; he told his crew: "Watch Cornell...
...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 and got set for the traditional fate of all victorious coxswains: a ducking by his mates...
Editors Phillips and Rahv, only survivors (both 39 years old) of the crew of young Marxists* who founded the Review in 1934, hoped for an increase in circulation too. Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine...
Forgotten Faces. Her crew were not seamen but romantics who invested ?100 apiece in the venture. Of the ten men in her forecastle when she left Plymouth and plunged into a night of gale, only one had ever been to sea before. Soon almost all were seasick. Skipper Seligman felt a gloomy awe at his own temerity. He and the first mate, Lars, had to shout in melodramatic alarm to rouse hands to shorten sail. After the two-day gale had blown out, "faces that we had almost forgotten appeared blinking...