Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have made themselves his guardians. Russell-Cotes School, to which Geoffrey is remanded in lieu of the reformatory, is a naval training institution which seems to be a model of its kind, with good-hearted Herbert Mundin to teach the boys sailors' knots and coach the lifeboat crew; Charles Coburn to improve their characters, and young Mickey Rooney to act as head prefect. To Geoffrey, the routine lacks excitement. It is not until he has insulted the headmaster's wife, tried to run away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered...
There last week, with the same conviviality and commotion of 75 Race Days before it, an undefeated Harvard crew met an undefeated Yale crew for the four-mile race on the Thames-upstream this year from the railroad bridge to Bartlett's Cove. It was the first time since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike...
Yale Grads-sprinkled on the banks, the observation train and the decks of the million-dollar flotilla of yachts-yelled themselves hoarse as Ed Leader's crew shot out in front getting away from the stake boats. But that was the only time it was in front. In as pretty a race as has been seen on the Thames in years, both shells moved along as one-the Yale bow stubbornly clinging to the Harvard stern - until beyond the three-mile mark. There Yale made a courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat...
Poughkeepsie Regatta (Mon. 3:45, 4:45, 5:45 p.m., CBS). No. 1 crew race described from the boat train by Ted Husing...
Convict Richard Whitney, onetime (1910) member of Harvard's varsity crew, onetime (1930-35) President of the New York Stock Exchange, in a game at Sing Sing, played first base for the prison's "school team," batted .667 in three times at bat, made no errors, stood a chance of promotion to the prison varsity...