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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry F. Atherton 1L snagged the first place as the Senior oarsmen neared the finish line, of the one mile course, while Harvey Picker, winer of the Junior Singles the day before, and Thomas J. Darcey '37, winner of the 155 pound competition last year, tied for the second berth...
...eupeptic. No really bad play landed on its feet, though several got passing marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further, it was a season in which, from start to finish, the critics acted as pacesetters: No-play they panned became a hit, and none they cheered turned out a flop...
Harvey Picker 2GB, crossed the finish line one length ahead of Peter F. Cunningham '39, in the rain yesterday to win the Junior Singles in 5:25 time. Both will be entered in the Senior race today...
Sitting in the centre of his pirogue, with one leg doubled under him, Adam Billiot furiously dug in his homemade paddle when he heard the starting bomb, jumped into a five-yard lead, zoomed past the fishermen's huts along the banks, crossed the finish line first, amid piercing pirogue yells of "Ay-la-baaa." But the first prize of $200 was not for Adam Billiot. After finishing his four-mile sprint he discovered that the bomb that sent him off was a prankster's firecracker...
Runner-up was Cravat, a former stablemate of Dauber's in the Whitney string, who had been 20 lengths behind the leaders at the half-mile post, had made an equally astonishing stretch finish. Pace-setting Menow was third, Can't Wait fourth...