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With five hours' fuel aboard, Navy Ordnanceman Bill Falls, 22, took off one fine day last month from San Diego's La Mesa Airport in a Taylorcraft borrowed from his best friend, Parachute Rigger Charles Schrieber. A good amateur pilot, Bill had a 24-hour liberty and planned to spend it in Phoenix with his recently widowed mother...
...team's major problems, besides the inexperience of most players, was a lack of weight. Size, although not as important as in football, is a considerable asset in rigger, and strength in this department should be greatly increased in the spring...
...Junior varsity was understroked by Navy almost all the way in what became a two shell race soon after Penn broke a rigger. Navy rowed most of the way at 29, jumping the count to 32 when Crimson struck Len Wheeler moved his boat to 35. The Middle shell-which had been Coach Rusty Callow's third eight until this race-was two lengths ahead at the finish. Its time was 8:48.8, while the Crimson's was 8:56.8. The Jayvee boat included Dan Simonds at bow, Ned Bliss at two, Chis Halle at three, Bob Monks at four...
...Greatest Show on Earth; the scene in The Quiet Man in which Barry Fitzgerald walks into the newly weds cottage after their fast night and finds the broken bed; the climax of the Crimson Pirate a perfect parody, during which a balloon and a submarine attack a square rigger...
Love's Jayvees had no such luck, however. With the Crimson leading by over a length only forty strokes from the end of the race, the oarlock on number two's rigger broke, and the oar came out. Two-man Swede Sundqvist missed one stroke, then threw the loose oar out of the boat, and followed it by diving out himself, the crew finishing with only seven rowers. Princeton sprinted when the Tiger coxswain saw the accident, closed the gap, and passed the Crimson, winning by half a length...