Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lifeboat Racing attracts huge crowds, probably because it costs nothing to watch. Competing crews of six passenger and freight steamships last week splashed off at the starter's gun, pulled up New York Harbor off the Bay Ridge shore where 250,000 strollers, motorists and apartment residents were watching. Each boat's weight, ascertained before the start, was 5,500 lb., with crew and ballast...
Edward H. Bennett, Jr. '37 was elected crew captain at Red Top last spring, succeeding Ray Clark, leader and driving spirit in the 1936 underdog eight which took Yale by 6 lengths last June. Cox Eddie Bennett stands 5 ft. 7 in., weighs 125 pounds, is 20 years old, and has rapped out the beat for three crews against the Blue in three years...
Bennett returns to Charles waters this fall with Olympic experience, having coxed the four-oared shell representing America. Three other members of that crew are seniors this year: Roger Cutler, Bill Haskins and Paul Austin. The boat was stroked by Robert Cutler '35. Four-oared honors were captured in the finals by the German crew, the all-Harvard American representatives being beaten in an early heat by the French...
...Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Peadar O'Donnell, Sean O'Faolain dramatizing different aspects of the struggle, followers of Irish literature may occasionally get the impression that the entire Republican Army was made up of accomplished novelists whose stories were better than their strategy. Of this talented crew, Sean O'Faolain has recently emerged as one of the best novelists in the ranks of fighters for Ireland's independence...
MIDNIGHT-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Fantastic melodrama revolving around an old house and a creepy crew of eccentrics who fill it, in the vein of Author Green's Avarice House and The Closed Garden...