Word: mcmanus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...varsity captain who had occupied it for two years. The Cornell boat, almost unchanged from the one which won the Poughkeepsie Regatta against the best crews in the land last year, was the favorite. In it were Bob Wilson, last year's stroke; Peter McManus, the baldheaded, 30-year old No. 5 who watched 14 Poughkeepsie regattas from his father's farm on the Hudson and, ten years after he got out of high school, made up his mind to go to college and become a crewman. Princeton, in the east lane, had about the same outside chance...
...Manhattan; Philanthropist Dennis Francis Kelly of Chicago; President Bernard Joseph Rothwell of Bay State Milling Co., Boston; Paul E. Fitzpatrick of Brown, Durrel Co., Boston; John Duff of New Bedford, Mass.; John F. Tensley of Worcester, Mass.; Vice President Michael Lester Madden of Hollingsworth & Whitney Co., Boston; Theodore F. McManus of Detroit.- Soon after making these appointments, His Holiness issued a mighty interpretation of the will of God, a 16,000-word encyclical addressed to his flocks, to the Knightly and the benighted. Its opening words: Casti Connubii ("Of Chaste Wedlock"). Justly did the Catholic world regard it of utmost...
...race, an inexperienced Freshman team placed second to New Hampshire and defeated Holy Cross freshmen. Raduazzo of New Hampshire placed first, followed by McManus of Holy Cross, and Blood of New Hampshire. A. B. Hallowell '34, brother of the University winner, was the first Harvard Freshman to cross the line, followed by J. M. Estabrook '34. Other first year runners to score for Harvard were James Parton '34, J. R. Levin '34, and T. A. Robinson...
...Freshman summary: Raduazzo (N.H.), 18:47; McManus (H.C.), 19:01; Blood (N.H.), 19:12; Hallowell, 19:16; Estabrook, 19:20; Nerboune (N. B.), 19:26; Low (N.H.), 19:42; Barrison (N.H.), 19:43; Tighe (H.C.), 19:47; Parton, 20:00; Levin, 20:40; Robinson, 20:06; Fellman (N.H.), 20:24; Libby (N.H.), 20:30; Roesch...
...seriously except to say that they were too heavy; that the stroke, blonde Robert McCrae Wilson Jr.. 19, suddenly recruited from the third varsity when towheaded Captain Horace D. ("Hod") Shoemaker fell ill, was too young; and that the No. 5, a bald-headed fruit-farmer, Peter J. McManus, 30. who had been inspired to go to college because he had seen so many crews row past his farm at Highland on the Hudson...