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Crew Coach Ed Leader, who succeeded Connibear at Washington, where he had played football as well as rowed, started the Washington monopoly of U. S. crew-coaching. His western successes attracted the attention of Yale, whither he went in 1922 taking Richard Pocock with him. He was succeeded at Washington by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, who brought the West Coast its first Poughkeepsie Regatta winner in 1923, went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. Currently, Washington crews are coached by Al Ulbrickson, whose major rival is Ky Ebright, Washington coxswain in 1916-17, now head coach at California. Between them...
...Vandalia, Ill., a missing steel bridge over the Kaskaskia River was found in a junkyard, whither it had been carted after dismantling by a dealer who said he bought it from a nearby farmer...
Clutching a flopping, broad-brimmed black hat and four books of his verse (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems, The Shoes of Happiness, Eighty Songs at Eighty), hoary Poet Edwin Markham, 84, hobbled feebly into a Brooklyn court whither he had been summoned on petition of his sister...
...Church was founded in 1873 by a discontented Episcopalian, Rev. George David Cummins. It invites all comers to Holy Communion, considers its bishops merely "head presbyters," no more potent than other priests. A typical, evangelical Reformed Episcopalian is Bishop Higgins, who acquired a touch of Presbyterianism at Princeton Seminary, whither he went after attending Columbia and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia. Since his ordination in 1928, affable Churchman Higgins, a bachelor, has been rector of New York's First Reformed Episcopal Church. In 1930 he persuaded his congregation of 400 to build the church and apartment house...
...into a furious castigation of Soviet Russia and made this glancing reference to birth control: "Many regard the rich results of Science as being all-sufficing. This has brought about a loosening of the ties of marriage and restraint upon the impulses of sex. Well may we ask-'Whither is this drift carrying us?' " As the Archbishop of Canterbury was by this time getting definitely a "bad press," the sagacious Primate of All England gave a most sumptuous feast to British journalists in his Lambeth Palace, regaling them with pheasant and choice wines...