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...Londoners, the dock strike was a nagging labor problem. To the visiting Russian rowers, it was a singular embarrassment. They could hardly disapprove of such a proletarian maneuver, but there they stood on the shore with their sweeps in their hands, and there were their shells on the deck of the strikebound Soviet freighter Strelna. The regatta at Henley, where they had swept the river only the year before, was only a week away. How could they practice? They were up the Thames, as it were, with a useless set of paddles...
...pace, unlimbered his 8-in. edge in reach, stung Olson with a hard jab, left uppercuts -the beginning of the end. After only 1 min. 19 sec. of the third round, Archie shot a walloping right, then two paralyzing short left hooks to Olson's jaw to deck Bobo cleanly for a count...
...which answers "Woof! Woof!"), watches the dwarfs play at ninepins, has a couple of drinks while the bassoons rollick, sleeps it off and then calls for his dog (no "Woof"); 4) The Albany Night Boat, mostly moonlight and summer, and a five-piece Dixieland band on deck; 5) New York, a one-minute explosion in which the percussionists and their public-service assistants beat, squeeze, crank, .crash and blow vigorously...
...fellow travelers on a calmer sea," he told New York Times Editor Charles Merz during a chance encounter on "A" deck of the Queen Elizabeth. Arriving in the U.S. for the first time in 8? years, he had serene "greetings" for "the people of the world-famous city of New York, and with them all those in the United States who are in favor of lasting peace, international cooperation and consolidation of friendship." Molotov went sightseeing, had some pleasant comments to make about American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Washington and Penn crews pulled their hearts out to hold the pace. Then, stroking along at a steady 30 beats a minute, Cornell began to get way on its boat. Just before the two-mile marker, the Big Red caught up with its plan: it was a boat deck in front...