Word: strokings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite: muscular, moon-faced Herb Creppel, 24, who won the last big race just before he went off to be a paratrooper, three years ago. Now he was defending his championship with a shrapnel wound in his right leg. It didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy...
...about the people's choices. Many a Senator has told his own rags-to-riches success story. Many have chatted about their work in Congress, tried to make it more understandable. And most address their breakfast mike with a speaker's pose, lean back and stroke their napkins as though smoothing a vest in the halls of Congress...
...palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...Stroke Torby Ross, who was kept by illness from the Severn regatta, stepped back into his pace-setting number eight slot yesterday. Varsity bowman Bill Cochran reported in yesterday and will probably resume his chores tomorrow...
Coach Tom Bolles this afternoon at 5:40 o'clock brings his varsity crew to the season's most decisive test on the Annapolis middles home waters in the Severn basin. Despite the fact that regular stroke Torby Ross is not yet ready to resume his rowing chores and bowman Bill Cochran and cox Grant Thomas are laid up with colds, the Crimson varsity enters the nine-way regatta an one of the two favored shells...