Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sivard, in horn-rims, has the quietly desperate air of a man who has dealt with unceasing pressures for so long that a sudden letup would give him a bad case of the bureaucratic bends. But as his fun-filled, detail-packed little canvases show, this worried air conceals an indestructible sense of humor. He started his artistic life as a muralist's assistant, later became an adequate commercial artist and illustrator, then dabbled a bit in abstractionism. But he had to give it up: "It's awfully hard to get a touch of humor in an abstraction...
...Crimson team easily defended the Greater Boston Dinghy Championship, and Ford, Horn, and Lehmann mastered Princeton's weed-filled home waters to down Yale and Princeton in the Big Three Championship late in the season...
...great season started off insuspiciously, however, when Ford and Horn were trounced by Coast Guard in the Danmark Regatta, the first event of the fall, held in late September. The only other loss of the season, also to Coast Guard, came after a close finish in the Schell regatta, forcing the Crimson to relinquish the Schell trophy which...
Also in October, Ford became the first skipper over to win the New England Sloop Championships three years in a row, Sailing with Horn, Rock Pring. and Pete Drake in 24 foot Ravens at the Coast Guard Academy, Ford overcame a foul-out and mastered winds of over 40 knots to engineer his victory over a strong Yale contingent...
Early in November, Crimson sailers copped the Leonard M. Fowie trophy with a near-perfect triumph in the New England Team Racing Championship. Ford, Horn, Mike Lehmann, and Dave Stockey swept through the preliminary eliminations and semi-finals with a perfect 10-0 record, and trounced Coast Guard in the finals, four races...