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...Doroteo Flores, 30, the 26-mile, 385-yd. Boston Marathon. Flores, a Guatemalan mill weaver, was the seventh foreigner in a row (other winners: two Koreans, a Japanese, a Swede, a Canadian, a Greek) to win the annual Patriot's Day race...
Captain Lou McCagg strokes this tentative varsity, together since Thursday, with two-year veteran George Gifford back in his old number seven seat. Juniors Loe Rouner, Phil DuBoia, and John Atherton are returning varsity lettermen at numbers six, four, and three, respectively, while sophomores Bill Geertsema and Swede Sundquist are at five and two. Bob Webb is rowing bow. Warren Clark and Al Lefkowitz share the coxing duties...
Others are: Dick Mann, Rupe Maynard, Captain Lou McCagg, J. J. Moore, Frank Peale, Tom Peterson, Rubin Richards, Lee Rouner, Jim Slocum, Dan Simonds, Pete Simonds, Swede Sundquist, Bob Terry, Bob Webb, Kim Whiting, Jeff Wyman, and Pieter Van Thiel...
Blue Faces. Waxell, born a Swede, joined the Russian navy in 1726 and the Bering expedition in 1733, bringing his wife and son along. It took the straggling army of human whatnot (adventurers, scientists, convict laborers, shipwrights, camp followers) almost five slogging years to cross the 4,000 miles of Siberia and join up in Okhotsk. There, in Arctic cold, the expedition built a large base and a small fleet. One squadron sailed south to study Japan; two ships, one of them carrying Bering with Waxell as his second in command, put out into uncharted seas to explore America from...
...broad picture and the significant detail behind each story, and his succinct wisdom is beautifully quotable. I haven't been able to figure out his nationality. Sometimes he is a shrugging Frenchman, frequently a shrewd but likable Cockney. In the Nov. 12 issue he is an analytical Swede ("the only thing that puzzles me is how could a simple Navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets. Also, why were his Red sympathies ignored for 24 years...