Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite clear what the I.R.A. committee is trying to do," says one lightweight oarsmen. "They want to force the heavies to give up the Yale race and come to Syracuse to decide that national title. If Harvard doesn't, they'll crown Penn champion and publicize the fact. They're trying to get at Harvard's pride...
...Harvard's refusal to accommodate those who would crown a titlist as much as it is the Crimson's attitude towards the sport that baffles its critics. The reason that the Harvard oarsmen gave this year for racing Yale is the same one their predecessors gave in 1965, when the Crimson was allowed to have its will without much protest. It is the aura of tradition which surrounds the race, as well as the intriguing idea of a four-mile test of strength, that makes the Yale race so much more attractive to Harvard, and despite the fact that...
...three books published this year by former Post executives, none reflects the ugliness more graphically than Otto Friedrich's Decline and Fall (Harper & Row; $10). The others-Matthew J. Culligan's The Curtis-Culligan Story (Crown) and Martin S. Ackerman's The Curtis Affair (Nash)-are by two former presidents of the Post's parent, the Curtis Publishing Co. Though reputed swashbucklers in business, Culligan and Ackerman are plodders in print, offering little more than inarticulate exercises in self-justification. Former Managing Editor Friedrich's book is not without self-praise, but for the most...
...several small works by several good artists rather than one large oil that might have a greater impact on a museum wall. He liked self-portraits, and among the gems of the de Young's acquisitions are self-portraits by Courbet and Manet, who portrayed himself with a crown of thorns in a study that he never used for his painting of soldiers jeering Christ...
...less vivid to millions of Frenchmen. A veteran of the Free French navy, the handsome brawler fought his way out of Casablanca to become "l'Immortel." In September 1948, he knocked out Tony Zale in the twelfth round to win the middleweight title. He lost the crown to Jake LaMotta nine months later when he tore a left shoulder muscle in the first round, then gamely fought on virtually one-handed until he was unable to answer the bell for the tenth round. Scheduled for a rematch with LaMotta, the superstitious Cerdan consulted a fortuneteller, had Marcel Jr. spit...