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...changes are at present in the offing in the freshmen's starting lineup. Louis McCagg is at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark will steer, yell stroke, and generally direct activities from the coxswain's post...
Hairy-chested Novelist Ernest Hemingway, 49, on a hunting and fishing trip in Italy, drove into Padua for treatment of a shiner. He explained, briefly, that he had "run into an oar...
Freshman crew always attracts swarms of candidates in the fall because relatively few secondary schools have rowing teams, and those uninitiated to the art of oar pulling are intrigued by the idea of gliding along the Charles River in slinky shells with bottoms one-sixteenth of a inch thick...
...Good Oar. The scion of a modest Gooderham inheritance was sent to a primary boarding school in Pomfret, Conn., then to Groton, which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...
...most important place." He never put on enough weight to row on the varsity, but another old Groton boy and Yale oarsman, Averell Harriman, admiringly remembers the Dean of those days. Says Harriman, with the air of a man making a lasting character judgment: "He was a good oar...