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A smooth stroke with a long easy run paid off with first place in the other races, also. Fred Richardson nosed out faster-stroking Russ Bath by a half length in 3:32 in the half-mile 155-pound race. This race was closely contested by four scullers until the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emmet Becomes University Single Sculls Champion | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

One of the two races in which the Crimson was not the runner-up, as luck would have it, was the big one--the New England Championships May 7 and 8 which also served as eliminations for the National Championships. In this regatta the Harvard team of Putnam and Scullay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Mold A Top Team . . . . . . Without Boats | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

By Subway. On Monday of last week, a thin-nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Russian for Hello | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

In a close game that went into a ten minute overtime, the freshman Lacrosse team nosed out Andover, 13 to 11, Saturday at the Business School Field.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover Falls to '52 Lacrosse Team, 13-11 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

The only principal who seems to enjoy his role, apparently because he really believes in it, is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as a sniffly, red-nosed King Arthur. The rest of the clanking, top-heavy production has the hollow, dejected air of a joke with its punch line missing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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