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...mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been removed and that Reed, because of his praise of Leon Trotsky in his Ten Days That Shook the World, had been posthumously proscribed by orthodox Stalinists...
Possiblity that Captain Spike Chace may not be able to row in the Adams Cup regatta against Navy and Penn tomorrow loomed last night as a threat to the Crimson's bid for the sprint title of the East...
...prospects of victory revolve around the performance of two strokes. On the one hand Spike Chace, praised by Coach Bolles as being one of the best oarsmen in intercollegiate rowing, leads the cool Crimson boat which has thus far cruised around 30 and 36 to outsprint Rutgers, Princeton, and Syracuse...
...that the Varsity "didn't really row their best race at Princeton," he makes no predictions on a Harvard victory Saturday on the Charles. "Anyone of the three crews, Cornell, Syracuse, and Harvard, can win," he said. In discussing the individuals of the first boat, he praised the captain, Spike Chace, "as an all-time great stroke...
When the Big Red of Cornell sweeps its mighty strokes through the Charles next Saturday, Spike Chace and the Crimson oarsmen are going to have their hands full trying to retain an undefeated title. The Tech men will be in there too, but their eight-length defeat by Harvard on Lake Carnegie proves they will not even count...