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Besides Ager an Bullard in the doubles the second and third teams will be made up of Hughes and Ames, and Jay Robb and Dave Key. Barnaby, as usual, plans to play his lower echelon doubles teams in both matches when and if the Crimson racks up a good lead...
...lasting until after 6 p.m., will also include races between various female aggregations gotten up for the occasion. Yale, however, will not enter its first team in the ARA's as it did last year, and doesn't plan even bringing any of her lower echelon oarsmen. Her unexpected entry of her first varsity and subsequent sweep of the small college eights at the ARA regatta in Philadelphia last year has apparently proved enough sustenance for her publicity department for some years to come...
...gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...
...that the hotel's underpaid staff would be expecting tips when he left. So one day recently before rushing to catch the Ankara Express, he armed himself with a handful of crisp banknotes to take care of them. Sure enough, when he checked out, there was an expectant echelon of busboys, waiters, doormen, bellmen, telephone girls and elevator operators all lined up with outstretched hand by the hotel desk. Racing for his taxicab, the diplomat slapped a bill into each eager hand along the line and finally reached the street. Then he turned, stopped, stared in dismay...
...told him it would be impossible for me to leave in seven days because I had a 14-day-old daughter. He escorted me up one echelon where a somewhat more pleasant official said I could have 15 days to get out of the country. When I once more asked why, he shuffled through my dossier, looked up and naively said: 'I'm not supposed to tell...