Word: oarsman
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That fall he went to Yale, where he rowed No. 7 on the frosh crew. Says Acheson, archly: "Those who row No. 7 say it is the 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...
When young (37) G. Mennen Williams, onetime Princeton oarsman, surprised himself and his fellow Democrats by getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign...
Haines came to this country in 1911 after establishing a famous record as an oarsman in England. He started as a coach at the Union Boat Club in Boston, but transferred to Harvard in 1915, where he remained until accepting the position of head coach at MIT in 1923. His 1916 Crimson crow once set a four-mile record of 20 minutes and two seconds...
Williams, an ex-Princeton oarsman (class of '33), whose intimates call him "Soapy," had entered the gubernatorial race almost without assets-political or financial. He had served in appointive political jobs-lately as a state liquor-control commissioner-but had never run for elective office. Though he is an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune, he will not get his share until he is 40. His Republican family refused to back his campaign...
Dangerous Rival. The Olympic rival that Ulbrickson worried most about was Harvard, which had its own private "sweep" last week. Coached by a scholarly ex-Washington oarsman,* Tom Bolles, Harvard set a new course record on Connecticut's Thames River to whip Yale for the tenth year in a row. This week, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, N.J., the Huskies will face Harvard, Yale and eight other crews to determine who will row for the U.S. in the London Olympic games...