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...first show, Quinn followed a report on child labor among migrant workers with this comment: "I can remember when my mother and father wanted me to clean my room-I thought that was child labor." After a segment about Chesapeake Bay's contaminated clams, she recalled covering a crab derby in Maryland. As the week went on Quinn lapsed less frequently into such limpness; she laughed more easily and appeared to gain confidence. Future weeks may bring further improvement. Surprisingly, none of the first five shows capitalized on Quinn's talent for interviews...
Ever since the ancient Indian game was introduced in Baltimore, it has been as much a local institution as crab cakes and H.L. Mencken. Each spring the city's schoolboys break out their lacrosse sticks the way kids in other cities limber up with Louisville Sluggers. At Johns Hopkins, foremost of the more than 100 U.S. colleges now competing in the sport, lacrosse is the No. 1 athletic attraction, drawing twice as many spectators as football and basketball combined. Thus it is no surprise that the Blue Jays enter the first round of the N.C.A.A tournament this week with...
...freshman race, Harvard won by somewhere in between two and three lengths. The exact margin is uncertain as the Navy shell was forced to way-enough about 300 meters from the finish when seven-man Tom Purday caught a crab squarely in the rib cage and was neatly plucked from his seat and deposited in the Severn...
...Crimson game plan of getting a jump on Princeton at the start failed to work on Yale's Housatonic River which is curved and requires a staggered start. Harvard caught a crab in the first ten strokes and found itself nearly a length behind when the crews settled. Yale, as expected, was never in the race...
...other sport can be so intensely watched. There is no jumbled scrimmage that must be clarified with instant replay. The ball may approach home plate at 100 m.p.h. or crawl down the third-base line like a crab. A 400-ft. fly ball may fall foul by two inches. As in chess, power radiates from stationary figures. Yet on a given pitch, ten men may be moving. Clearly, this is a game to be scrutinized...