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Breaking the cup record enroute, the Harvard lightweight crew won the famed Thames Challenge Cup Saturday at the annual Henley Regatta, following four days of strenuous competition. The regatta, held on the Thames about 40 miles from London, is often regarded as the World Series of rowing...
...leader who was narrowly defeated in the 1935 mayoralty election, two-time Olympic sculling champion, World War II National Physical Fitness Director, father of Princess Grace of Monaco; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Youngest of a onetime County Mayo farmer's ten children. Jack Kelly was barred from the Henley Diamond Sculls (won in 1947 and 1949 by his son John B. Jr.) not, as legend has it, because he had once been a bricklayer, but because British officials ruled him a professional. In 1956, when his daughter announced her engagement, Kelly said: "I told the Prince that royalty didn...
...health declining, Adams put aside the fife, the piccolo, the mouth organ and the penny whistle he invariably brought with him to social occasions, and entered the Lynwood Nursing Home in uptown Manhattan. There he died last week at 78, of arteriosclerosis. Some years earlier he had parodied Henley's Invictus...
This sly threnody to the dead innocence of an innkeeper's daughter is as randy as Editors W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson allowed Robert Burns to be in the magnificent 1896-97 centenary edition of the poet's work. But Rantin' Rab enjoyed writing of houghmagandy (bed games) as much as he liked baiting the kirk, as he made plain in such poems as The Court of Equity and The Fornicator, which are usually found in the sort of editions that are passed around privately. In his new comic novel, Scots Author Linklater has done...
...verdict on English rowing the Crimson victories are inconclusive. The second Isis boat, which materialized in less than a month from men whose colleges did not send eights to Henley, lost by only three seconds to a well-integrated and highly trained crew. The first Isis boat, representing an incomplete university eight, did equally well against one of the strongest American crews ever to cross the Atlantic...