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Ferry-boat service for Stadium-bound couples won't materialize this afternoon, despite one week of work by the Leverett House Civic Improvement Society.

The group, which began its altruism last month by paving the mud-slough on upper Plympton Street, had planned to lessen pre-game crowding on Anderson bridge by shunting part of the traffic across on a rowboat.

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But last night William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the five student philanthropists, complained "we've asked at every boat house and fish wharf up and down the Charles, and no one will lend us a boat--not even for cash."

Mason said the Society had asked MIT fraternities and foremen at the Eliot Bridge site, and had even tried to borrow the "Leviathan," the Harvard crew's Nile-type practice barge. "We couldn't even get a life-saver," he pined.

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