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Winthrop House's underrated eight sprang the major upset of yesterday afternoon's House crew races, when it displayed a completely unexpected drive in trouncing the favored crews from Adams and Kirkland. Eliot House's big boat ran true to form, winning the other House division handily...
When last year's shy-but-rich Yardlings started a C.O.D. date bureau in collaboration with a similar Radcliffe organization, it was only mildly dangerous to free competition. No protesting unions sprang up on either side of Mass Avenue...
...climax to the week's intensive practice, Bolles called for a time trial on Saturday afternoon over a mile and three-quarter stretch of sloppy Basin water. His tentative first boat fulfilled expectations by coming home an easy winner, but the third heavies sprang an upset by finishing with open water between them and the Junior Varsity...
...still ahead, has nothing directly to do with building up the U. S. Merchant Marine. President Roosevelt sprang it on the country in January when he announced that 200 fabricated ships, box-shaped 7,500-tonners with reciprocating engines, would be built for Britain (cost: $350,000,000). This additional job was naturally no surprise to the Maritime Commission or to Land, who had helped lay out the program and knew the British would order 60 more ships of the same brand. This week the Commission announced that it would get busy on 400 more seagoing slugs for Britain, when...
Leahy dramatically drew Kimball out with leading questions until he struck home by asking Kimball if he did not consider himself criminally guilty. Bradford sprang to his feet in a second with a violent objection after his witness denied the charge...