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...Bohn came back from three years in the Army to take over the second oar in the Varsity boat. Moving now more sedately than he did as a Navy night fighter pilot. Bill Cochran is bow man. Tom Grant, purple-heart infantryman, handles the Varsity megaphone...
...dawned warm and windless. By 8:30, the hot chestnut men were out. Hawkers barking blue dolls (royal blue for Oxford, light blue for Cambridge), windmills and crossed-oar badges took up stands they hadn't filled since the last Boat Race Day, seven years ago. By 11, just before high tide, when the Thames is quiet and indulgent, a half-million Londoners had lined both sides of the Thames's tow-paths as their fathers & grandfathers had before them, off & on, for 117 years. Almost everybody brought hampers of food, and some brought stepladders. It was England...
Princely Crew. Most of the Argo's 50-oar crew were royal princes, each with his special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest...
What chance the old Managing Board has to recoup its set-back it is hard to discover. They still have an oar in officially, and sources associated with the "outs" say the situation is far from settled and predict a renewal of the fight this fall, with a possibility of two rival Specs...
...Germany a horse-drawn wagon crawled slowly westward. Three ragged men and a woman sang with sad irony: "Nie rzucim ziemi skqd nasz rod, nie damy pogrzesc mowy" ("We shall never leave oar fathers' land, we shall never let the Polish language...