Word: sculler
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Appropriately, the Penn crew that won the Adams Cup last week was coached by Diamond Sculler Joe Burk, who learned his sweep-swing from Rusty Callow. Rusty is the man who made Navy great. He arrived at Annapolis in 1950, put in an unsuccessful year, and then watched his crews sink right out from under him-on the flood-swollen waters of the Ohio River in June 1951, three Navy shells were wrecked. But Callow and Navy did a quick salvage job. From Meilahti Gulf, Finland to Newport Beach, Calif., they won race after race, including the 1952 Olympic championship...
...first of these is the stone age. If the stone age was at first simple, it was nonetheless irritating. Little boys stood on the bank of the Charles and threw rocks at the moving sculls. It was something of a game, with the sculler's sanity the stake. Simple in its pure form, even the stone age underwent some modernization...
...mechanized. Motor boats, big and small, appeared, oblivious to the frail Harvard students and their frail craft. If formerly one had only to row to the other side to escape a rock, now the boats and their over-present waves were all over the river. To add to the sculler's confusion, there are several types of motor boats...
This brings us to man's final attack upon the sculler, the nuclear age as evidenced by the Sanitary Engineering Department's discovery. Perhaps for the first time the sculler has no chance. Previously impervious in the face of rock and Evinrude, he bravely fought back, head over shoulder, his eyes peeled for trouble. That was in the old days. Now trouble is all around him, he is rowing on trouble...
That was in the old days. Now atomic fission is everywhere. Nowhere is the conflict between East and West, Communism and Democracy, so clearly outlined as on the Charles River. A nightmare is haunting today's single sculler: the vision of a motorboat filled with little boys. The little boys are armed with rocks, and they pursue him relentlessly until he is capsized into the nuclear waters of the Charles, Cambridge's first casuality from radioactivity...