Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvey Love leaned back in his chair in the coaches' office at Nowell Boat house tugged on his weather beaton gray fedora, the well-known symbol of Harvard's varsity crew coach, and stared glumly out the window at the wind and rain-whipped waters of the Charles...
Drizzling rain restricted Jack Barnaby's varsity tennis team to a 6 to 0 victory over Springfield last Saturday on the losers' courts...
Married. Princess Josephine Charlotte, 25, sister of Belgium's King Baudouin; and Crown Prince Jean, 32, heir apparent to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (pop. 300,000); in Luxembourg. The wedding, carried off in lavish, old-style pageantry in spite of rain, drew a glittering collection of guests: three kings, three queens, a grand duchess, an archduke, 22 princes, 18 princesses, and assorted lesser nobility. Royal feathers were momentarily ruffled when Princess de Rethy, commoner wife of Belgium's abdicated King Leopold III (father of the bride), got uncommonly close to the head...
Neither team went south earlier, and both have had to sweat out the late New England weather indoors. And providing rain, sleet and snow don't interfere again, both will have to take their chance against injuries on what promises to be a rather sloppy diamond...
...pitched a three-hitter as the Milwaukee Braves beat the Cincinnati Redlegs 2 to 0 in the first game of the National League's 1953 baseball season in Cincinnati . . . The American League opener, between the Yankees and the Washington Senators in the nation's capital was postponed because of rain. President Eisenhower will now throw out the first pitch in Washington Thursday when the Senators face the Yankees. . . All 16 major league clubs are scheduled to see action today, and the weatherman forecasts that all games will be played . . . Babe Zaharias, famous woman athlete, will undergo an operation on Friday...