Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some 400 survivors from the Baleares' 750-man crew. Same day Leftist warplanes, determined to scuttle Franco's flagship, bombed it seven times. At latest reports it was slowly foundering, a smoldering, blackened hulk...
Five times president of the New York Stock Exchange and once czar of Wall Street, Richard Whitney entered Harvard at the age of twenty, having graduated from Groton, where he rowed and played football. His first year he rowed number four on the Freshman crew, and in 1910, as a Sophomore, he made the varsity crew, rowing...
Coach Tom Bolles' Varsity crew season is definitely promising with more than three full crews of good material on the river now. Rivalry will be keen for all but a few positions and Bolles expects to have a hard time deciding which among so many excellent oarsmen finally go into the first boat. At present nothing is definite, for the line-ups yesterday were much different from the ones of Tuesday and Bolles plans to continue trying the first three boat loads in all possible combinations...
Perhaps the least contested position is stroke. Captain Spike Chace is practically a sure thing here if he continues as well as he has been going so far. Possible contenders are Bill Rowe who stroked his Freshman crew two years ago, Henry Curwen who stroked last year's Freshmen but is now tied up in his studies, and Barr Comstock who drew so much attention as stroke of the lively second Freshmen last Spring...
...past experience, Ed White runs the best chance to steer the shell now that he is coming out regularly again. Alvan Fox comes next in the ranking, with George Shortlidge of the recent Freshmen following him. Joseph Elcock and James Snow, who coxed for Bill Rowe's ace Freshman crew of two seasons back, are also possibilities in a large field of steersmen...