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...Paul Ress, Terrail, the Gielgud of gastronomy, explained: "La Tour d'Argent is like a theater. I am the author of the play, an actor in it and the director. The words and gestures of every actor are carefully rehearsed. Every employee knows exactly how to walk, stop, bow. There is no obsequiousness. Nor is anyone allowed to take a fat tip from a guest in exchange for a 'good' table. I'd fire anyone who accepted a tip for that. I'm very severe. Three or four times a day I have a conference...
Andrews' character grows as each witness adds anecdote or insight. His boyhood hockey coach remembers him as a superb athlete who once said, "When I try my best I always seem to hurt someone." His pastor proves that John learned early when to bow to expediency. At school he earned every honor, but may also have planned the burning of a dormitory so he could be a hero by saving his sleeping classmates...
...eights contest stroke Alison Hill, Allison Hall at seven, Wikki Royden at six, Jenny Getsinger at five, Connie Cervilla at four, Katie Moss at three, Marie Adams at two and Judy Ames at the bow slot, got off to their best start of the season, moving out a little bit on the other five boats by the first 30 strokes of the race. It was upon settling that the powerful Radcliffe eight simply rowed through the other boats, with only Yale hanging in close...
Radcliffe's final time was 3:55.6 into a stiff headwind. The varsity four, with stroke Barbara Norris, Anne Robinson at three, Robin Lothrop at two, Sarah Kuhn at bow, and coxswain Amy Sacks, took a come-from-behind victory. A bit of psychological warfare ensued before the race began as the crews were lined up at the stake boats. The B.U. stroke, in the lane next to Radcliffe, yelled across, "Listen, girls, they have the finesse, but we have the power...
Rowing against a slight headwind the Harvard lightweight JV's with coxswain Burt Levitch, stroke Jerry Boak, Dave Porter (7), Rich Harper (6), Tim Hackert (5), Mark Sieber (4), Jack Foley (3), Greg Miller (2) and Woody Harlan at the bow slot, took off against their arch rival Princeton, and never looked back. Rowing at a 36 for most of the race, Harvard crossed the finish line at 6:30.8, with Princeton more than a length behind coming in at 6:36.2. Navy was third...