Word: oarsman
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...first term. Aside from Contracts and Common Law Actions, he has stood well in studies, has courted popularity but not publicity. Among intimates he calls his father "the old man." Last week he completed arrangements for two broadcasts-one this week, when, as an ex-Harvard oarsman, he will help Ted Husing comment on the Columbia-Navy crew race on New York's Harlem River from a bus top; the other next week as guest of Vitalis ("Just think of the word vital and add i-s") hair preparation, when he will tell how it feels...
Watchers on the river heard a woman scream as the oarsman, Phillip Brooks '39, settled into the chilly water, pulled his boat to shore, and was helped out by an obliging Metropolitan Police officer who had rushed to the scene to ask, "Did you fall...
Died. James A. Ten Eyck, 86, since 1903 rowing coach at Syracuse University; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami, Fla. A professional oarsman whose first sliding seat was greased leather sewn on his trunks, Ten Eyck once rowed his wife around Manhattan, at 65 rowed from Syracuse to Albany to prove his fitness, at 80 rowed in shells with men young enough to be his great-grandsons...
According to 150-Pound coach Bert Haines this indoor practice is far more important than the outside rowing. For it is here under the eagle eyes of the coaches that the prospective Varsity oarsman smooths out his technique. Faults which are difficult to correct in outdoor rowing can be easily corrected indoors...
...Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere on earth this June than the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), slim, Harvard oarsman and the lissome sportswoman who becomes his bride. But position and pulchritude were not so responsible for the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding's capturing public imagination as the fact that it culminated as bang-up a love story as Kathleen Norris ever turned out, complete with secret trysts, irreconcilable...