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...qualifying heat of motorboating's classic Gold Cup race at Seattle last week, Driver Orth Mathiot barely managed to make the minimum 65 m.p.h. speed in his blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h...
...Skipper Mathiot wasn't complaining. While Slo-Mo-Shun V also took the second heat, Mathiot and Crewman Tom Whitaker sat it out in the pit, working on a balky engine. "Aw, we're in this race for fun," said Mathiot. "What the hell...
Harry L. Walen '37 was announced president of the Harvard Poetry Club for this year at a meeting of the club last night. H. M. Brown, Jr. '40, and O. Mathiot Sterling, Jr. '38, secretary and treasurer, respectively, are to be his assistants...