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Behind this picture lie many decades of experimentation with training quarters and procedures for the annual grind, longest crew race in the world. Although the crew rows distances up to on miles a day in practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles--"leave it to the British to pick such an unorthodox distance" says Bill Bingham--through the mile-and-three-quarters, two-mile, and 2000 meter courses...
...Sentner organized a local at St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. The following year he led the plant's 2,000 workers in a 53-day sit-down strike, the second longest sit-down in U.S. labor history. But when handsome Stuart Symington (now Secretary of the Air Force) took over as Emerson's president, labor relations began to settle down. Symington and Sentner sized each other up; each found the other a forthright, levelheaded man of his word. Working together, they put into effect a successful labor-management plan and a profit-sharing program. Emerson, swollen...
...After the longest run a musical ever had on Broadway (2,202 performances), Oklahoma! will close this week...
...month still remains before the four-mile stint against Yale on June 25, but that time will definitely not be so easy for the oarsmen. As if practicing for the longest race in American rowing were not enough to worry about, the squad must also fit in practice for the 2000 meter Olympic trials the following week...
...Dives. The A's were on a ten-game winning streak (their longest since 1931) when they hustled out to play the powerhouse Yankees. Said one of Connie's coaches: "Lord knows what they'll do in a crucial series like this. They've never played in one before-never been important enough." The Yankees abruptly stopped their streak, 3-0. But next day, playing the Yanks again in a doubleheader, the A's bounced back. Outfielder Elmer Valo dived halfway into right-field stands like a circus acrobat to make a sensational catch...