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Working out the kinks of his crewmen in cold weather. Coach Bolles hopes to have his men ready for permanent spring...
...bluejacket knew, the 574 Nazi crewmen were supposed to be prisoners, due to be returned to Germany under guard while the Eugen was readied for extinction in the Navy's Pacific atomic-bomb experiment. But the eyes of the visitors from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania saw only heroes...
Cambridge crewmen, on just as austere a diet, were inclined to think Oxford was alibiing in advance. The Cambridge Eight (including two ex-R.A.F. pilots, and an Australian sapper) averaged...
Oxford blamed it on the austerity diet. Its crew, which before the war got two steaks a day per man, was now down to an egg a week and no steaks. Crewmen, stroked by R.M.A. Bourne (a prisoner of the Germans for three years, whose father and grandfather had stroked and later coached the Oxford boat), averaged a puny 154 Ibs. Prewar average: 180 Ibs. Last week Oxford ordered the lightest boat in its history, for the 96th race with Cambridge March...
...Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...