Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Sansom, 35, wrote these stories while serving as an air-raid fireman in London during the war. His Westminster in War, a carefully documented record of what the blitzes did to the city, will be published in England next month. Sansom looks like an Oxford oarsman and lives in a decayed house in northwest London where he is now working "only when I feel like it" on a book of short stories about Corsica...
Nobody is ready to talk about what the watches read when the eight-oared shells finished their one and three-quarter mile stints, but one oarsman breathed yesterday that this spring made last year look like a joke...
Four years as an "almost good enough" oarsman at the University of Washington under Rusty Callow, now at Penn, were good enough training for Bolles to rate a Freshman coaching berth at his Alma Mater. Nine years as a Washington coach were also enough to convince College athletic officials that Bolles was the man and he was lured away to be Varsity mentor here in 1936. Since then, except for a three-year so journ in the Navy, he has reigned with a battered, grey felt crown on his head, at the Newell Boat House...
...hunch that the missing Varsity oarsman might be indulging his fondness for skiing, the Lieutenant declared that Sergeant Stewart Currier, in charge of the troop in the area of the Dartmouth winter carnival, would have his men on particular lookout this weekend...
...said, she had been friendly with one William Bohozuk, 27, a husky laborer and onetime Leanders Club oarsman. Yes, she and Dick had separated and Bohozuk was the principal reason. Then police arrested Evelyn, Bohozuk and Evelyn's father, Donald MacLean, 68, and charged them all with Dick's murder...