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...fourth year, consist of a pie-eating contest and a highly anticipated pi recitation contest. Despite a lineup that includes four of Harvard’s most arguably voracious mathematicians, no one counts on the stunning upset from first-time competitor and eleven-year-old New Hampshire resident Ryan Heden, who dominates the recitation competition with a stern, focused rendition of 387 digits of pi. “I just memorized [the digits],” Heden boasts matter-of-factly. However, memory alone can’t carry him through the pie-eating contest—the pint-sized...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Williams, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Piece of their Pie | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles out and in third place, collapsed with cold. Edith Heden, Finn, screamed with pain and was taken out, bitten by eels. "Women have a horror of that sort of thing. It makes them sick," said Miss Daisy King Shaw, who was also bitten by eels. Eels like grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ontario Swim | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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