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Wilson stroked the Harvard Varsity crew to victory in the Challenge Cup races at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England, last July...
Nevertheless his autobiography shows a marked kinship between Author Milne and Christopher Robin, his famed creature. Youngest and cutest of the three sons of John Vine Milne, owner and Headmaster of Henley House School, little Alan, thumb in mouth, could read at two, entered Westminster School at eleven, ceased being a prodigy the next year when he caught up to his older brother...
...accident that Author Milne writes more charmingly about sliding down the bannister, his aquarium, bicycle tours, school days at Henley House than about his later career as assistant editor of Punch (1906-14), officer in World War I, successful playwright and novelist. "When I read the biography of a well-known man," he confesses, "I find that it is the first half of it which holds my attention. I watch with fascinated surprise the baby, finger in mouth, grow into the politician, tongue in cheek; but I find nothing either fascinating or surprising in the discovery that the cynicism...
...football team was "Big Three" champion for the second straight year; the soccer team was Eastern Intercollegiate champion; the crows swept the Yale regatta for the second successive year and the varsity crew later won the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England...
...days after the Yale race, the varsity eight, with sophomore Jack Wilson replacing Bill Rowe at the vital stroke oar, sailed for England to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta. The varsity easily led London Rowing Club, Jesus College of Cambridge and Argonauts Rowing Club of Toronto in successive heats to win the great silver mug exactly 25 years after a Harvard junior varsity eight captained by Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, had captured...