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...somebody else.After three years and three consecutive Eastern Sprints titles, the Harvard varsity heavyweights relinquished their EARC dominance to No. 1 Princeton on a turbulent day at Lake Quinsigamond. A dramatic come-from-behind win for Harvard’s No. 1 second varsity, coupled with a third-place finish for the Crimson freshman eight, helped seal Harvard’s 27th Rowe Cup.Thunderstorms and rainfall suspended the lightweight and heavyweight varsity races for over an hour, and fans took cover in the course boathouse as violent storms rolled in during the early afternoon. “We were just...
...There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have!" Oxford, England May 17, 1954 Then, according to plan, [Chris] Chataway sprinted into the lead, [Roger] Bannister right at his heels. Some 300 yds. from the finish, Bannister began pouring it on, lengthening his stride for his famed finishing kick, his head rolled back, his neck painfully arched. He tore the tape and collapsed unconscious into the arms of Trainer [Franz] Stampfl. "I wasn't thinking about anything in particular," he said afterward. "I saw the tape faintly...
...Oscar. Next up: the exercise goes live, with role players posing as residents fleeing a Category 3 storm by bus from the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center, the scene of real-life tragedy after Katrina. Along Lake Pontchartrain, meanwhile, contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are rushing to finish new floodgates on the city's perimeter, working even at night under klieg lights. New levees replacing those wiped out by the hurricane are nearly finished. The result, ironically, is that the Katrina-ravished Ninth Ward, lying devastated behind its new, higher, fortified levee...
...FINISH ROGER ANGELL Angell was born in 1920, and in what has to be one of the most entertaining and gracious prose styles of his gracious generation, he initiates us into the long-lost delights of being a moviegoer in the 1930s ("We were the lucky ones, we first citizens of film"), a baseball fan in the age of Ruth and DiMaggio, a motorist when cars had wooden-spoked wheels, a drinker during the ascendancy of the martini and a New Yorker editor of sufficiently long standing to have worked with William Shawn, James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Donald Barthelme...
...with a boat after the 1000, and dispatched No. 2 Northeastern by two boat lengths the final weekend of the season. Still, the Crimson expect its toughest challenge from Wisconsin, and a speedier Princeton boat as well as a very talented crew from Northeastern will make for a contested finish at Lake Quinsigamond. The Huskies’ lone dual loss of the season came to Harvard on the final day of the season.A season of lopsided dual wins augurs well, but the three weeks of preparation and the six-across start leave the winner’s dock wide open...