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Long after most Harvard students left Cambridge for the summer, rowers from the freshman heavyweight boat and the varsity lightweight boat remained to train for the Henley Royal Regatta. The rowers endured grueling practices out of Newell Boathouse until June 24, when they packed their bags and gear for Henley-on-Thames, England...
...work and the time paid off, as the Harvard freshman heavyweight boat captured the Temple Challenge Cup and the Crimson lightweight varsity boat rowed to the quarterfinal in the same event of the five-day regatta, which drew a quarter of a million spectators from July...
...MusicMatch (free at musicmatch.com, plus $30 to upgrade to the fast-burning version). Success at last! But there were still problems. The program doesn't tell you if playlists are too long for the CD until you hit RECORD, and some of my MusicMatch-made CDs skipped like a heavyweight boxer. Real Jukebox (at Real.com, also free for basic and $30 for fast-burning) had a better track record, but only because the Real people sent me a software patch that isn't publicly available yet. Before that, it wouldn't even admit my CD-R drive existed...
...heyday of heavyweight crew,” Crick said. “We had a great run back then. We won the [Eastern] Sprints three times. We were national champions twice. We also went to [the Henley Royal Regatta] a couple times. We raced in the Grand Challenge in ’87 and the Ladies Plate in ’86. We also went to the World University Games in ’87. I was lucky to be there with some very good, talented rowers...
DIED. JOEY MAXIM, 79, light-heavyweight champion who defended his world title against Sugar Ray Robinson in 1952; of complications from a stroke; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Maxim faced Robinson on June 25 at Yankee Stadium in 103[degrees]F weather. Robinson, heralded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, was well ahead with the judges but keeled over from the heat after the 13th round, giving Maxim a technical knockout...