Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club's sim to start up a topflight Union crew, and Taylor hopes that today's race may stir up interest in such a crew. The club would like to enter the American Honley races with a boat good enough it place--manned by newly-graduated MIT and Harvard oarsmen...
...Jhelum River is the main thoroughfare of Srinagar, beautiful capital of Kashmir. For 2½ hours Nehru rode triumphantly on its muddy stream. The city's carpenters had fashioned for him a 50-ft. barge caparisoned with gold brocade and Persian carpets, and propelled by oarsmen in white uniforms and crimson turbans. Nehru sat on a thronelike platform. At his feet played his two small grandsons, wearing Gandhi caps just like grandpa. Beside him sat quiet Karan Singh, Kashmir's powerless yuveraja (prince), and tall Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah, Kashmir's Prime Minister, real boss and Nehru...
Advance word on the combination crew is slim since it is untested in combat, but the general superiority of local oarsmen make it likely that Bolles can scrape together eight spare men with less trouble than Yale's Alan Walz...
Duccy, who was varsity coxswain in his undergraduate years, held the first practice for his intramural oarsmen the day before spring vacation. Since then he has drilled his boats assiduously except on Saturdays and Sundays...
Ducey's only complaint about his men was that in spite of their abundant will to win they could never be persuaded to lay off cigarettes, liquor, and bad hours. Had the Eliot oarsmen concentrated on keeping in condition, they could have been undefeated. Ducey thinks...