Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Marilyn Krug, 20-year-old daughter of the Secretary of the Interior, enjoyed one of those girlish honors that are tailor-made for looking back on later. At a ball she was crowned Queen of the President's Cup Regatta (speedboat whoop-te-do) by the very careful Secretary of Agriculture...
...Crimson's dinghy branch of its Charles River fleet last Sunday got out from under the thumb of the M. I. T. boatsmen when they stopped the Techmen's Fowle Trophy regatta streak at five wins and captured their first major dinghy victory since the spring...
...individual honors in the first division with 114 points, the Crimson topped a field of 13 colleges in acquiring the Leonard Munn Fowle Trophy. The 100 points of Ralph Foster and Pete Putnam in the second division gave Harvard the regatta's top total...
...yesterday's regatta opening, clerk of course Bill Dowd found it necessary to change the method of picking finalists when it became evident that the entries in a scheduled third heat had dropped out. Two heats were rowed and the top men in each--instead of only the winner--qualified for the final...
...biggest news of the 108-year-old Henley Royal Regatta was the victory of 20-year-old Philadelphian John B. Kelly Jr. In the same race 27 years ago, Kelly's father, a champion Olympic sculler, was denied the right to compete because he had once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight...