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...Cape Harting, with crated P-40s on her deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup...
...final race was the tenth in a series of heats. Also rowed yesterday was the ninth heat, won by an eight stroked by Seligman over that of Ross in four minutes, three seconds...
...Exonians completed the three-quarter mile course in four minutes and nine seconds. In the seventh and eighth heats of the College rowing tourney, a boat stroked by Seligman nosed out Scholl's eight by one foot, and Ross' crew defeated Emmett's. Seligman's time was 4:12, and the Ross boat covered the course...
...yesterday's three heats, crews stroked by Stuart, Cunningham, and Emmet defeated opponents headed by Seligman, Schaal, and Morris. The Emmet crew's win was by default...
Today's races will begin at 4.30 o'clock when the Seligman and Schaal boats take to the rive to decide the seventh runoff. Ross and Emmet will launch their crews in the eight at 4:35 o'clock...