Word: eliotisms
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Died. Samuel Eliot Morison, 88, master of the historical narrative, who wrote more than 50 books chronicling American and maritime history; after a stroke; in Boston. A skilled yachtsman and popular Harvard teacher since 1915, he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus for his 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, which won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes; in World War II he served on a dozen ships (he retired a rear admiral), collecting information for his 15-volume account of U.S. naval operations in that conflict. Critics also acclaimed his two-volume The European Discovery...
...Mather victory marked the first time in 21 years that the "A" boat title has failed to go to either Eliot or Kirkland House...
Most prognosticators felt the battle would be between Eliot and Kirkland, each of which won the preliminary heats last week. But it was not to be, as Mather took three quarters of a length by the 500-meter mark and then held on, covering the 1500 meters a scant one second ahead of Eliot...
...first year there has been a separate women's category, and 11 crews competed for the title. Dunster House, the favorite after easily wining its heat last week, edged out Eliot House with only ten strokes to go enroute to a nine-tenths of a second...
...were behind Eliot pretty much the whole way, but there was a lot of cinfidence that we could pull it out," number seven Allison Hall explained yesterday...