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Upset Scull Fails To Faze Oarsman

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Three Cambridge fire engines and six policemen mounted on a paddy wagon did their best to fish Frank V. Colombo '49 out of the Charles near River Street Bridge yesterday afternoon, but he refused their help.

Colombo, a Navy veteran, was pitched into the water when an carlock on his single scull snapped, thus turning the whole boat bottom up. He pushed the stricken craft to the shore, righted it, and, refusing all offers of assistance, paddled home to the Weld Boat House.

"The accident gave me more exercise than two weeks of sculling," Colombo stated last night, recounting his experience.

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