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...looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright works his men on the barge and rowing machines each fall, has them ready for the eight-oared shells when...
Removal of the 16-oar training boat from active use today symbolizes, in effect, the end of the first stage of training for the Yardlings and of the weeding out process among crew candidates. Today freshman coach Bill Leavitt has posted in the window of Leavitt & Peirce a list of those rowers and coxswains who survived the final fall crew...
...come on him, his head is generally raised towards the clouds. He is oblivious to life's petty details. In the movie's funniest scene, we find him out rowing with a young disciple. To demonstrate Newton's third law of motion, he pitches out first his own oar, then the student's, and, finally, their lunch. The role is amusingly played by G. Soloveyev...
...appears in the startling form of Morgana (Janet Leigh), a captured Welsh princess. Einar drools by the barrel, but before he can sully her honor, she has fled with Eric. "Let's not question our flesh," he tells her, "for wanting to remain flesh." Thereupon he bends the oar for a not very merry England, where after interminable bouts of slashing and bashing, swilling and swiving, everybody seems to go positively berserk with happiness-except possibly the adult members of the audience...
...Pennsylvania boat, which was slightly ahead of the Crimson for the first mile, finished the race with only seven oarsmen. Having less than half a mile to go, the number six man blacked out, caught a crab, and was thrown out of the boat by his oar...