Word: finn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such claims aside, a marginal case can be made for Jock Lit. Taken as innocent ego trips by authors who want to retain title to a Huck Finn boyhood without forfeiting their college degrees, the genre may be enjoyed by nostalgic and overeducated readers on their own night off. Furthermore, the premise behind these books is admirable: Why should the jock and the egghead be cultural schizophrenics? Alas, the question remains unanswered by those who now raise it. As ex-Puritans, Michener, Novak and their literary teammates are simply trying too hard to get body and soul together...
Schoettle has been in the battle a long time. He skippered a 5.5 meter in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne and came within 15 seconds of a bronze medal, and in 1960 served as an alternate for the 5.5 an Finn class. His brother crewed for Dr. Briton Chance in a 5.5 in the 1952 Olympics and came home with a gold medal, and finished second in a Tempest to Glen Foster in the 1972 U.S. trials and went to Keil as an alternate. He is no stranger to Olympic sailing...
...later hinted to newsmen that he had asked her to resign. A family friend put it more bluntly: "He has given her an ultimatum." Would she quit? Marion "wants time, a quiet time, to think about her position," said Marvin Frankel, a top executive at Ruder & Finn, her public relations firm...
...Edith L. Finn Hagerstown...
Fourth and fifth places went to Brown runners Lehan and Leavelle, with Harvard freshmen Jamie Kiggen and Peter Levine coming back to claim sixth and seventh places respectively. Rounding out the long line of Crimson finishers were Will Brownsberger (eighth) und Brian Finn (ninth...