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...Brooks, Andy Narva, Jim Richardson, and Phin Sprague return from last season's record-shattering boat to make up the nucleus of this year's squad. Joining this proven quartet will be seniors Rick Eustus and Captain Howie Burnett, along with a pair of sophomores, George Host and Pete Huntsman. Jay Galeski is the coxswain...
...Varsity boat shapes up with Burnett at seat one. Huntsman at two, Host at three, Narva at four, Sprague at five. Brooks at six. Richardson at seven, and Eustus at stroke...
...Pursue. One of the greatest sportsmen of all time was a medieval French knight named Gaston Phebus, Comte de Foix, who cut a dashing figure in the 14th century with his white armor and white charger. Renowned not only as a huntsman but as a lover, a poet and a diplomat, Gaston kept a stable of 600 riding horses, hundreds of stag, buck and boar hounds, and the fastest fleet of greyhounds in medieval Europe. The chase in the Middle Ages was an immensely sophisticated pursuit. Knowing better than any man of his day how it should be pursued, Gaston...
...with Gaston, he begins with such elementary procedures as how to lay out the hunt party's lunch, moves on to more sophisticated exercises like setting snares or stalking wild fowl with an artificial cow. One of the most charming illuminations illustrates the high art of camouflage. The huntsman, drawn in a simple wagon by a white palfrey, has concealed himself and the wagon behind leaves and branches...
...luxuriate in private. Inside our houses (try not to call them "homes") is where we let ourselves go with our art collections and our furniture and our closets crammed with Huntsman suits, Sulka shirts and Lock hats. It is also perfectly O.K. to amuse yourself with elec- tronic equipment. Nothing ordinary, of course. One of my friends says he uses a small computer to help him with his racing forms as well as with the stock market, and quite a few have closed-circuit television to communicate with the nursery and the servants' wing...