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...other varsity heat, Penn and Yale are the strongest boats. Since the top three finishers in each that qualify for the finals, the race for the championship will probably pit the Crimson against these four boats and one also-ran, maybe Princeton...
...painter. But the Low Countries in the 1600s, in spite of wars with Spain and brutal religious repression, saw the flowering of one incomparable painter after another-Vermeer and Rembrandt in Holland, Rubens and Van Dyck in Flanders. As a result, Jordaens passed into history as something of an also-ran. Now, thanks to a splendrous 315-work display of paintings, tapestries, drawings and prints at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Jordaens is finally getting the kind of full-beam spotlight necessary to illuminate his artistic individuality in all its flaws and triumphs...
Certainly this exercise has value. History contains a rich catalogue of loser statements, whose authors can be ranked according to the sportsmanship code and assigned appropriate moral victories. Even so, the loser himself well knows that he remains a loser; only by heroic mental gyrations can the also-ran restage the race in his favor. Obviously, triumph and defeat are defined by society rather than the individual. If a Ted Williams bats .400, for instance, the grandstand regards a .300 batter as a loser?and so does...
MARYLAND: Mahoney Rides Again If the name of Congressman Charles McC. Mathias ever becomes a household word, much of the credit will accrue to George P. Mahoney, the most indefatigable also-ran in Maryland's history. Defeated in seven runs for the Senate or the governorship, Mahoney has nonetheless managed to make and break several other men's political fortunes en route to disaster. In 1966, Mahoney narrowly won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, but his bumbling style and racist opinions (he campaigned on the slogan: "Your home is your castle-protect it!") prompted many Democrats to vote...
Four years later he was the also-ran whom Johnson humiliated by dangling the vice-presidency before his nose until (literally) the last minute. Since then, the Senator from Minnesota has been largely eclipsed. His voting record has been impeccably liberal, but he has not been conspicuous. His opposition to the war policy has toughened but half a dozen other Senators have grabbed more headlines for their anti-war views...