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...Ebright will receive $1500, a sheepskin certificate and a Bowdoin bronze medal for his winning essay entitled. "An Endocrine Approach to Insect Control: Status and Outlook," Lucy White, spokesman for the University prize office, said yesterday...
...decision was "the hell with the Business School," Lewis said. But Tommy Ebright, who runs the Kresge Hall newsstands, a concession allowed him by the B-School because of financial need, volunteered to distribute copies. The school objected, and Ebright began selling the free copies of BAD, three weeks before the newspaper itself went "pay." At this point Lewis got a call from the student head of the Board of Publications--"I wouldn't come and talk, which served to perk up their interest--offering BAD permission to distribute free it they would pay a $200 franchise fee. Lewis laughed...
Conibear & Success. "Rowing," says Ebright, "is a strenuous sport, though there is no jarring and no contact. It requires persistence and mental courage. Those that stay with it acquire some of that mental courage...
...Ebright started early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their...
Bigger & Better. Unlike Washington, California attracts few experienced rowers, and Ebright must build his men from scratch. Twice a year he looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright...