Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Compass will start out on a modest 24-page scale, pointing its needle to what Thackrey calls "the non-Communist left." Working as publisher, editor and managing editor, Wallaceite Thackrey thinks he can make money on 65,000 circulation and whatever advertising he can get. His editorial staff of 25 will include Medical Writer Albert Deutsch and Washington Correspondent I. F. ("Izzy") Stone, both survivors of PM and the Star, whom Thackrey harbored at the Post. The Compass' sport editor will be Stanley Woodward, onetime head of the New York Herald Tribune sport staff, lately editor of the short...
...minutes before the start is the agonizing time of butterflies in the stomach for oarsmen, a time when most of them regret the foolish impulse that over made them go out for crew in the first place. They think of their roommates lolling on the riverbank miles upstream, with a case of beer on one side and a girl on the other. They think of those newspaper reports about how hot the other crews are this year, and they wonder about those rumors or nine-minute time trials...
...takes several minutes to back all the shells up to the stakeboats (anchored rowboats containing a man who holds the stern of the shell until the start) and once this is accomplished there is more delay while the crewmen pool off their sweaters...
...first few hundred yards, and then settle into a longer, lower pace for the long pull through the middle of the race. Here the first variation in strategy appears, as the different strokes set the beat. Bill Curwen, for instance, never takes more than 10 sprinting strokes at the start, and then drops the beat all the way down to 31 for the rest of the race...
...fistfull of fillers start the program. They vary in merit, but "Mauve and Burgundy" from "The Safe Crackers," Jim Perrin's able singing of "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" and "A Wandering Minstrel I," and the Trio, "If you go in," from "Iolanthe," make it worthwhile to arrive tonight for the first half of the fare...