Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson crew is a definite under-dog as it trains for the 98th renewal of the Harvard-Yale Regatta which will be run this Saturday on the Thames. Last year, with five sophomores in their varsity heavyweight boat, the Elis broke a three year Crimson winning streak...
...very active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among the seminude supporters sweating it out with Big Jim were Merchant Bernard F. Gimbel, 78, and onetime Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney, 66, who read a poem-presumably in dank verse-titled Ode to a Bouncing Biltmore Bath Baby...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
...while Cornell took four major events, and both the heavyweight Rowe Cup and lightweight Jope Cup, the undefeated Crimson freshman heavies and lights salvaged some success for Harvard by winning the two other major titles...
...most impressive crews of the day, coach Laury Coolidge's freshman eight proved itself the best in the East with a length victory over Cornell. The freshmen took off at the start and never let up, finishing with a time that would have fared well in the varsity heavyweight final...