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Racing a triangular course in a field of six teams, Harvard Yacht Club skippers Dave Stookey, Dave Gantz, Tim Prince, and Wilson Halley first lost to Dartmouth on a protest. Both teams then fell to the Coast Guard Academy and romped over Bowdoin and Rhode Island School of Design. But the Indians' advantage disappeared when they succumbed to Williams, also on a protest...
...prose pieces of real merit are reminiscences (both true and "untrue") by lesser known writers, Anne Halley, Robert, Hellman, Diana Athill. Miss Halley's piece, a really magnificent sketch, recalls her life (or the life of her herine) as a child in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. When the Nazis ascend to power her family leaves for America...
...beginning of the story has already indicated what effect it has had upon her parents: "They use paper napkins instead of the linen, rolled up in napkin rings; they like Pepperidge Farm bread and even Jello." The tale is, on a number of counts very sad, Miss Halley's prose is rich and evocative, and the story's exquisite construction succeeds in delaying the point until the very...
...other reminiscences, while not as good as Miss Halley's story, have their own particular and considerable virtues. Robert Hellman's In the Country is another tale which contrasts the old country (in this case Russia) with the new. The New York couples on a country hillside listen patiently while Boris, a slightly eccentric friend, tells of an odd experience his father had in Russia. The story is obviously an important one both for Boris and for his dead father, and the American friends listen with kind patience, but with no comprehension...
...final pot-shot at the romanticists, Liller discounted the popular 1910 reports of the size and brightness of Halley's comet. He remarked that at least two comets sighted within the last ten years and hardly noticed by the public were probably as bright as or brighter than Halley's comet...