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Harvard's practices have shown improvement in the last couple of days after a poor showing earlier in the week. Ted Anderson will move up from the Jayvees to take over the varsity number five oar in place of Steve Hedberg, who has to stay in Cambridge to take Medical School entrance exams tomorrow. Al Rieselbach will replace Anderson in the second boat. Warren Clark moves back into the varsity coxswain's position, with Al Lefkowitz coxing the junior varsity...
...leave her shattered hulk to rust! Long has she rocked below, And many a fish has swum to see The grandma of the "Mo'; Above her piles the coastal tramp And plops the dinghy's oar;--The Yankee Cheese Box on a Raft Shail rout the Reb no more...
Spectators who have been watching the Englishmen work out have noted their extreme follow-through with particular interest. English oarsmen "row" the oar out of the water, which dictates a much further lay-back following each stroke. Americans take their oar from the water before the full stroke is completed...
After months of listening in pained and piqued silence, Ottawa formally replied last week to persistent U.S. complaints that Canada is not pulling a full oar in Western defense. At the Commercial Club of Chicago, Canada's Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe told an audience of businessmen exactly what Canada's contribution to Western defense...
...week's end, Johnson finally stuck a powerful oar into the campaign. In a letter to Labor, weekly publication of 15 railroad unions, the Senator announced he was pulling hard for his fellow Democrat, John Carroll. That far from settled a tough campaign that still had five weeks to run, but it seemed to turn the odds in the Democrats' favor once again...