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Awake at me Switch. Fast-rising Arthur Larson was born a Republican in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. At Oxford University he took first-class honors, won a rowing oar that still accompanies him from job to job. He taught law at Tennessee and Cornell, during World War II served with the Foreign Economic Administration. In Washington after V-E day, he watched returning General Dwight D. Eisenhower ride up Pennsylvania Avenue in a victory parade. Larson flipped on his car radio to hear the general address Congress, remembers that "it went right through me. I was an Eisenhower man from...
...Currach Race"-a currach being the paper-thin, skin and withy rowboat in which Galway fishermen put out into the Atlantic. Colm wants to marry Sorcha, a fisherman's daughter. But the fishermen despise Colm because he is a farmer. Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day. He nearly kills himself, but in the end, bless him, they agree he's a great man, and there at the finish is Sorcha kissing...
Timpson, who rowed number three oar this season, is a graduate of Eton...
Despite the adverse conditions, Brown maintains that there is every possibility that this year's crew will be as good as 1958's excellent group. With only two experienced men, Mike Adair of Exeter at bow and Joe Noble of Milton on sixth oar, Brown hopes that enthusiasm and practice will shape a successful group...
...150s, Mark Earle will be stroke; Bill Leatherbee, seventh oar; Noble, sixth oar; Hugh McMahan, fifth oar; Dave Davision, fourth oar; Court McKeeman, third oar; John Wunderlich, second oar; Adair, bow; and Vic March, coxswain...