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...Gerassi that what he really wanted in life was to paint pictures. To make a living while painting, he has tried his hand at some 40 different jobs. He came to the U.S. at the start of World War II, got an art teaching post at Vermont's Putney School three years later. Today his Ukrainian-born wife teaches modern languages at the school, while Gerassi paints in their two-room, picture-crammed cottage, or wanders over the Vermont hills...
...this rugged actin which river experts point to as a handicap on the choppy water predicted for the four miles, 400 yard course from Putney to Mortlake...
...recent try-out, however, Cambridge equalled the 1938 record of 3:37 for the 1600 yards from Chiswick Steps to Hammersmith Bridge. But Oxford turned in an excellent 4:10 to set a record for the mile row to Putney Bridge and chop five seconds from the best times of Cambridge crews...
...weeks ago we moved from Henley to Putney, the starting place of the Boat Race. For more than a month we have given up all pretense of academic endeavor. We are living for rowing alone...
...Life at Putney came as a distinct shock to the old Harvard oarsman used to the spartan rigours of Red Top. . . . Every day a press launch follows the crews, and some hundreds of people show up to watch the eights paddle off from the boathouses...