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...Harvard varsity heavyweight crew--former national champions. After defeating Wisconsin by a healthy margin in the Eastern Sprints, the Crimson was stunned by the Badgers in Cincinnati, losing the NCAA title by a whopping 4.34 seconds...
...Harvard varsity heavyweight crew--former national champions. After defeating Wisconsin by a healthy margin in the Eastern Sprints, the Crimson was stunned by the Badgers in Cincinnati, losing the NCAA title by a whopping 4.34 seconds...
Edmund Valentine White III was born 50 years ago in Cincinnati to a father who was a chemical engineer and a mother who was a psychologist for retarded children. He is the seventh Valentine in the White descent. His older sister Margaret Fleming, a psychotherapist, recalls that even as a small boy her brother was different: "Like most kids I was a conformist, but not Ed. I didn't understand him then and probably tortured him a lot . . . Today he's my hero. When my parents divorced, he was only seven, and he took it very hard. He became...
...kind of life that his father could never accept, or even imagine, for his only son. "The Joy of Gay Sex ((which White co- authored in 1977)) was promoted widely enough that I supposed some rumor of it might have reached even the Republican Valhalla of Cincinnati. My father had never mentioned the book to me. He had also stopped writing me. For that reason I was reluctant to face him. Thank God I did; he died a month later. At the funeral my stepmother told me he'd never known of the book. She had torn...
...only was it a chance for the Crimson team to redeem their near-perfect record before the Cincinnati defeat--aside from the championship, they had won every major race this year--but it was also an opportunity to redress past greivances...