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Third in the nation is a title most teams in the country would take in a heartbeat.Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew is not “most teams.”After finishing behind Princeton and Wisconsin at the IRA national championships the past two years, the Black and White came into the season expecting a change.The team wanted to get back on top, and the No.1 Radcliffe crew has done just that.With the men’s heavyweight team losing a head-to-head race for the first time in three years, the Black and White...
...many hours in that 14th Street walkup shop, trawling through those cramped aisles and groaning shelves for obscure film stills with the help of young Howard Mandelbaum (who now owns Photofest, a premier stills outlet). Irving was dead, but Paula still presided at the front desk, and her son Ira Kramer helped out. If I knew the name Bettie Page in those days, and I couldn't swear to that, I was unaware of the role Paula and her brother had played in the Pinup Queen's career. It was crucial...
Finally, the IRA has the luxury of extending invites to specific crews, an amenity easily destroyed if the NCAA took over with its automatic and at-large bids for championship events...
...Crimson heavyweights have won three straight IRA national titles in Camden and five straight Harvard-Yale dual races. One of those annual appearances would likely cease if the NCAA adopted men’s rowing. For the lightweights, the NCAA label might leave them to the IRA format or dissolve them all together, since the women’s NCAA regatta allows just three heavyweight boats to compete...
...some pessimists, the IRA regatta itself is in danger if the NCAA takes over. Perhaps the IRA will become a mere qualifier for an NCAA Championship; perhaps it will disappear all together...