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...Brown on Sunday, the Engineers triumphed for the third straight year in the Lucian Sharpe Trophy competition, defeating Crimson sailors, and teams from the University of Rhode Island, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, and the Coast Guard Academy. Crimson skipper in the "B" division, Addie Closson, had a tough break in the third heat when he was disqualified because his centerboard became fouled in the anchor line of the windward marker. In the "A" division, Fred Hoppin won the seventh heat, but it was not enough to place the Crimson high in the final standings...
...Sunday, the sailors will send two boats to Providence, R. I., to compete for the Sharpe Trophy with entrants from M.I.T., Brown, the University of Rhode Island, Princeton, Dartmouth, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy...
...final standings were: Navy, Princeton, Brown, Babson Institute, Harvard, Rhode Island, New York State Maritime College, Cornell, and Pennsylvania...
...Though none of my colleagues would admit to being scared, they had a certain nervous look about them that made me think they felt like I did . . . Upon entering the reactor room I noticed Senator Pastore, Democrat, of Rhode Island, taking a quick glance at his [lapel instruments to test radioactivity]. Of course, I am sure it was entirely out of curiosity. I looked at mine, too . . . The atomic reactor was, of course, the center of interest. We were mere inches from lethal, deathly radioactivity. Yet, we could harmlessly place our hands on this still, warm, but quiet source...
Everyone ranging from the official U.S. Weather Bureau to Rhode Island's favorite rheumatic Yankee, predicted last night that today and yesterday are just typical examples of what the weather will be like until at least June...