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...McMILLIN REPLACES NEALE...
...fellowship went to Jo'ann Jehl for work towards a doctorate in public health at the Harvard Medical School. Sizeable fellowships also were awarded to Mary S. Grimley and Patricia R. McMillin for graduate studies at the Universities of Chicago and Illinois respectively...
Last week at Annapolis for the Eastern sprint regatta, McMillin got another chance to change M.I.T.'s status. With 34 eight-oared shells from 13 colleges competing, spectators saw the biggest flotilla ever assembled for a crew regatta in the U.S. But for McMillin there was only one other shell on the Severn River: undefeated Harvard, which had lost only nine varsity races since 1937, had already beaten M.I.T. twice this year...
...starting cry of "Ready all. Row!" Harvard Coach Tom Bolles clamped his battered felt hat down firmly on his bald head, wrapped his black slicker around him, stood high in the middle of the coaches' launch, gripping two stop watches. Big Jim McMillin, dressed in undersized Marine green jumpers, stood nervously beside him. For nearly a mile, as the launch dropped farther & farther behind, M.I.T. and Harvard matched strokes in third and fourth places on the pace set mainly by Pennsylvania and Princeton...
Grey-haired, 36-year-old Jim McMillin whooped like a schoolboy, almost threw himself overboard in his frenzy of delight. All he could say was, "Damn, damn. We won it!" The winning time: 6:28.8 for the 2,000 meters, 20 seconds better than Harvard's a year...