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Tunney-trained Chief Boatswain's Mate John Geston will conduct the program which must be attended by prospective officers, with the exception of those who are out for intercollegiate teams. Men enrolled in active sports, such as tennis, squash, and single-scull rowing, will be required to be present at only two periods a week...
...Thomson, 44, is a chub-cheeked, baldish, chirrupy, witty, exquisitely cultivated native of Kansas City. A piano-prodigious only son, he went to the same high school as Playwight-Critic Richard Lockridge, Contralto Gladys Swarthout, Actor William Powell. Virgil Thomson went to Harvard, where he wore kid gloves to scull on the River Charles, and played the organ in Boston's King's Chapel. He spent a year after graduation on a grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn an honest penny...
...width across the top. It will remain in competition for twenty-six years, from 1941 through 1966, with the name of each year's winner to be engraved on the side. The cup will succeed the Carroll Challenge Cup, which has been presented to the winner of the Single Scull Championship of the University for the past forty-six years and which was retired...
...Single scull rowing, long the most popular individual sport in the college, has this year achieved new heights with Weld Boat House, home of the waterbugs, handling as many as 600 rowers in the course...
...says he learned to scull by rowing himself and brothers to school on Rancocas Creek, which runs by the farm. At Penn he was captain of the crew, later sculled for Penn A. C. He was never any great shakes as an oar until he worked out a stroke which no one could beat or imitate-a jerky, robot-like chop with no layback, which gets his blades in & out from 38 to 45 times a minute (average sculler's stroke: 28 to 32). Until this winter, when he decided he was going stale, he trained all year round...