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...Harvard sailing team stayed local for the first weekend of spring break, competing in two regattas in New England on March 22-23.Though the results were somewhat mixed, both Crimson contingents came away from the blustery weekend happy with their results.The co-ed sailing team took fourth place out of 18 teams at the Boston Dinghy Club Cup, held on Harvard’s home turf of the Charles River.Meanwhile, the women’s team competed in the Mosbacher-Knapp Trophies in Branford, Conn., a co-ed regatta.The Crimson placed 13th in the 16-team field in the event that...
...team sailed at the Southern New England Team Race in New London, Conn. After a poor showing on the first day landed the Crimson in the consolation fleet, the squad rallied for a second-place finish in the consolation round for 12th overall...
...drafted and play professionally and they were still able to make solid contact on a lot of pitches.”The Crimson also struggled defensively and committed five errors on the day. “I’m looking forward to getting back to New England and seeing if we can learn from what we’ve done,” Walsh said. “You are what you are, though. Right now we’re a struggling ball club trying to find ways to win.”—Staff writer Jake...
...preferred the stage to the screen, but many will remember actor Paul Scofield best for his Academy Award--winning performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film version of A Man for All Seasons. Born in the south of England and trained in theater from an early age, Scofield led an intensely private life offstage but onstage captivated audiences with his precision and fervor. A master of Shakespearean roles, he played everyone from Henry VIII to Hamlet, also delivering memorable performances in parts ranging from Don Quixote to Salieri in a 1979 production of Amadeus...
There was nothing sweet about Andrews' childhood. She was born in England in 1935 and grew up poor. When she was 4, her mother, a pianist, took up with a handsome vaudeville tenor who later became an alcoholic and at one point forced a creepy, toe-curling kiss on her. Meanwhile, Andrews' real father, a tender and saintly man, turned out not to be her "real" father at all: when she was 14, her mother bluntly informed her that she had been conceived in a one-time liaison with an acquaintance...