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Southerners also enjoy a legacy of shared celebration. From the epicurean crab feasts of Maryland's Eastern Shore to a catfish fry in Tennessee, from Texan barbecue orgies to the days-long shrimp or gumbo feasts of Louisiana's Cajun country, Southerners are united in their love of a party-and its morning-after reconstruction. An old New Orleans saying: "The rabbit says, 'Drink everything, eat everything, but don't tell everything...
...lavish dinner parties, costing up to $500, at the Carriage House, a Georgetown restaurant. The only informing that took place at the blowouts was done by the agents themselves-no actual informants ever attended. Recalling one of the dinners, an agent told TIME: "It started with cocktails and crab meat, then there were oysters, followed by steak and wine and French pastries and brandy. When I got home, I was woozy. My doctor believed that I was having a heart attack and put me in the hospital. But I was only overstuffed." Government investigators consider the payments to have been...
Dave Bixby, number two man for the varsity, caught a bad crab around the 800 meter mark, which allowed Penn to creep back to within a half seat of the Crimson. But the boat regrouped, and quickly retook command of the situation. Twenty strokes later, Bixby's oar decided that once was not enough, as it dove back in the traditionally horrendous Severn for a second helping--this time, a boat-stopping crab...
...with a bad start and proceeded to go up stream from there. And despite flashes of brilliance from the J.V. boat--it moved on a strong Penn eight consistently throughout the race--the crew was equally consistent in its inability to row smoothly, culminating in a boat-halting crab five strokes from the finish line...
...home to the friendly waters of the Charles, seeking to avenge the lone blemish on a three-year winning streak which was inflicted by Navy last year. The mid-shipmen just edged out the Crimson last spring on their home course, when Harvard's seven man caught a bad crab and was thrown from the boat. Harvard will be looking for its twelfth Haines Cup in the 13-year history of the race...