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Columbia v. Yale v. Pennsylvania. Coach Ed Leader of Yale had plenty of good men to pull the Alaskan cedar oars, supposed to be tougher and springier than spruce, with which he had rigged out his shells this year. It is a heavy crew, too, averaging more than 185 Ib.; Leader's main problem was to find a stroke. Those able strokes, Arthur Palmer Jr. and Woodruff Tappen, had graduated and there was no one else in sight. He decided after elaborate trials that long-legged Robert Goodale was more dependable than Herbert Shepard, who stroked last year...
What new evidence had convinced the Treasury that Soviet convicts worked the Soviet spruce forests, U. S. Commissioner of Customs Frank Xavier Alexander Eble refused to reveal. Unable to investigate conditions for itself the Treasury had obviously accepted as substantial proof affidavits from independent observers, labor camp refugees, casual visitors. Under the Treasury's order an importer can bring in Soviet lumber and pulpwood only if he establishes by a preponderance of evidence that these commodities are produced by free labor-an almost impossible requirement...
Christmas trees, for which 700,000 spruce and balsam fir were sold last year. Average price to the grower is 6? (in the cities the retailer gets 50? to $10). Last season a group of growers in Coos County marketed cooperatively, tagged their trees with special holiday labels, realized as much as 15? per tree...
Sometimes crawling at a walking pace along the narrow, level path past the cots, sometimes swooping at 30 m. p. h. around the steep sides of the great bowl built of spruce boards in Madison Square Garden, bicycle riders raced in the 40th International Six-Day Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road...
Edward of Wales's spruce, militant, black-mustached cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Greys, presided at last week's welcoming banquet to the British Imperial Conference-held aperiodically since Queen Victoria's jubilee...