Word: drives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation of the alignment of boats in these races is in order. 150 pound crews, containing no man over 155 pounds are slower and can keep their pace for less distance than the average heavy eight. This is because much of the smoothness and drive of a shell is provided by the easy swing of the upper body and shoulders of the oarsmen at the catch and that, because light weights must make up in strength what they lack in beef, they muscle out a more strenuous and less rhythmic stroke. The Crimson third heavies versus the first...
...also voted to donate $100 to the Radcliffe Freshman Displaced Persons drive which has fallen short of its mark...
...final Crimson tallies came home on Charlie Walsh's line drive home run in the eighth. Ben Akillian, who had walked, scored ahead of the big catcher...
...Council also gave its approval to a fund drive for a Theater Arts Center which might eventually grow into a Student Activities Center. The Center project, with the Council aegis over it, has a chance of picking up a big donation this week...
Strauss & Sparks. A debonair and handsome man, Arthur Fiedler is known around Boston as both a socialite (he married a onetime Beacon Hill debutante in 1942) and a "spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took...