Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undefeated in its regular season. Radcliffe made an impressive show of strength at the Easterns and the New Englands two weeks earlier. "We always knew we could best those phys. ed. jocks at College Bowl, but threatening them in their own element with only a fraction of our team was real success." one of the swimmers said yesterday...
...first he refused to identify Hecht's source, adding with either remarkable disingenuousness or extraordinary lack of judgment that the name was difficult to spell and he couldn't remember it. Eventually, under pressure, Bothmer produced that hard-to-spell name and some letters by the bowl's former owner, an Armenian coin collector in Beirut named Dikran A. Sarrafian...
Sarrafian, the letters said, had inherited the bowl, then in fragments, from his father, who acquired it "by exchange with an amateur against a collection of Greek and Roman coins in 1920 in London." Offered earlier and more willingly, that evidence might have settled things. But by now charges and countercharges were shooting back and forth across the Atlantic. Reporters were pursuing Hecht, Sarrafian, Met Director Thomas Moving and a restorer in Zurich named Fritz Buerki, who had expertly repaired the calyx krater for Hecht...
Crimson captain Terry Valenzuela, fencing in his last Harvard match, is also well aware of the importance of today's contest. "This one is for the cellar," he said after the Holy Cross contest Tuesday. "I guess you'd call it the Toilet Bowl...
...Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...