Word: onondaga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although there were nine other varsity crews in the championship race, the majority of the crowd of 18,000 which lined the banks of Lake Onondaga had eyes only for Navy and Washington. At the referee's shout of "Ready all . . . Row!", Navy spurted off at 40 strokes a minute. The fast start gave Navy a slim lead over Washington at the half-mile mark. By then, following the pre-race instructions of its canny Coach Rusty Callow, Navy began to save strength, switched to a long, easy 28-stroke-a-minute beat, to have plenty left...
Race Referee Clifford ("Tip") Goes shouted: "Ready all, row!" and 88 lean crewmen bent to it, pulling their lightweight (250 lbs.) toothpick shells in surging spurts over Syracuse's Lake Onondaga. It was the golden jubilee race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, once known as the Poughkeepsie Regatta, later shifted from the Hudson River to the Ohio (at Marietta), and now settled at Syracuse, out of reach of floods...
Hospitable N.Y. Fabius and Pompey, about 17 miles southeast of Syracuse, had been without a doctor for five years. Last fall Dr. Brudny, then admitting physician at Brooklyn's Cumberland Hospital, was driving around upstate New York, trying to find a place to settle. The Onondaga County Medical Society referred him to Fabius. Dr. Brudny liked the place, but he had no money to buy a home and office. A Polish-born D.P. and a survivor of Nazi labor camps, he had been in the U.S. less than two years...