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...After leading all the way on the dead, calm waters of the Severn, Navy's varsity crew was still able to take the stroke up to a backbreaking 40 per minute to hold off Cornell's closing sprint, cross the finish line 6 ft. in front and win its 31st straight race. (Last defeat: in the I.R.A. Regatta, June...
...Wayne Frye] that is one of the greatest that has ever rowed in a shell." As far as Callow was concerned, his boatload of oarsmen had only one flaw, and that was beyond repair: for six members of the Navy varsity (the "Sing Sing Six of the Severn") last week's race at Lake Onondaga, N.Y. was their last. Five already had their commissions (two Navy, three Air Force...
When Rusty Callow went to Annapolis four years ago, after 23 years as crew coach for Pennsylvania, he found the wide-open waters of the Severn River and twelve boatloads of brawny oarsmen. Coach Callow made the most, of it. His freshman crew that first spring in 1951 had tough luck at the intercollegiate rowing regatta: they capsized at the starting line. Since then, that same crew, still almost intact, has shown its wake to the best crews, become the Olympic champions of 1952. On the Potomac last week, in the Eastern Sprint Regatta championship at the Olympic distance...
Although the Lawrence School portrait, of doubtful authorship, fairly approximates the features of Keats's death mask, the most famous studies are those by Keats's great friend, Artist Joseph Severn. Severn nursed Keats through his last illness. His faithfulness to the dying poet, in fact, made him a big name in the art world, and his paintings sold like hot cakes for 20 years afterward...
...talking was not enough. Navy's deft team play, with crisscross aerial passes, won two quick goals early in the second half before Army could get moving. Final score: 10-7. Navy's jubilant players, rushing to the Severn River seawall, gave happy Coach William H. ("Dinty") Moore a hearty heave ho into the river-then exuberantly jumped in after him. Princeton's Coach Thomsen hurried to a telephone to tell his men that they were the national champions...