Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he died. Latham mines all these works for relevant material-including some passages Edmund Wilson left out of the unfinished Tycoon manuscript he edited after Fitzgerald's death and an early unpublished draft of Tender . in which the novel's central figure was a movie cameraman. (The only boat Latham misses on this score is The Beautiful and the Damned , where Joseph Bloeckman, a self-made movie entrepreneur, hints of such later Fitzgerald heroes as Gatsby and Monroe Stahr, the tycoon Hollywood producer drawn from MGM "boy genius" Irving Thalberg...
...Division "B", Reeve took a first and then two seconds, and then gave way to Koch who took a second and a third to give the Division "B" boat ten points to tie M. I. T.'s co-skippers, Tom Bergen and Al Spoon...
...entire race was rowed in a rain shower that subsided only as the crews hit the finish line. Harvard, rowing in a tailwind, reached the 1000 meter mark in three minutes, but the wind changed to a headwind and the Crimson boat finished the course...
Captain Dave Harman, who stroked the varsity boat, said that the crew was quite satisfied with the margin of victory. "We didn't have a very good start as during the first 500 meters both boats were hit by strong cross winds. Once we settled, however, the boat began to move and we had open water on them by 1000 meters...
Over a length of the varsity's four-boat length margin came with the last 30 strokes as they climbed to 38 perminute for the final sprint...