Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curwen is the third man to stroke the Varsity. Jack Wilson, last year's pace setter started out the spring in the number eight slide, but gave way to Colton Wagner, who drove the Varsity to its first two victories. Bus Curwen, last year's '43 stroke, is having his try at setting the Varsity's times. The majority of the boats which Curwen has stroked have come from behind in the closing stretches to do their winning...
...individual competitions, the pace setters are: For the Charles H. Blair bat (for highest individual batting average), Dartmouth's Captain John Orr, Jr. leads the field with eight safe hits in 12 times up for .667. Yale's Howie Kaye continued his slugging against Cornell, getting two for three and bringing his average to .615. In third place is Pennsylvania's Bernard Kuczynski with 10 for 19 and a .526 average. For the Princeton A. A. cup (for individual base stealing), Captain Orr of Dartmouth and Reagan of Pennsylvania are tied with four steals each...
...most exciting race of the afternoon was that staged by the Varsity 150's. Cornell's lightweight eight went out in front first by putting on the pressure early, then faded badly in the last half mile under the withering pace set by the Tech and Crimson fifties. At Harvard Bridge Johnny Abbot's boat had a quarter-length on the Engineers, but as the two shells came into the finish stroke for stroke the gray-bladed sweeps hit the water last and thrust the M. I. T. boat across the line first, a winner by a scant two feet...
...Armored cars accompany us and it's still a miracle how they got through. A Company are to contact the enemy, artillery is to open up and the rest of the battalion is going to mop up the pieces. Our planes roar overhead, the heat is killing, the pace is terrific. We reach our first bound but the enemy are gone. I pass the word around: "Save your water." I rinse my mouth out and we go forward...
...Lady Eve" has just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns...