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Oarswomen in the first boat--including Jocelyn McArthur, Eleanor Prior, Alison Townley, Joyce Gallagher, Ellen Kennelly, Marianne Romak, Jenny Hale, stroke Rosemary Pugh, and cox Rachel Miller--began with a stroke rate of 40, settled in at a 34, and sprinted the last 20 meters at a 36, said Kennelly, who rounded out the first boat...
...private papers. "I went from being a devotee to realizing I was the victim of a con game," he says. Archivist Armstrong concluded in his court statement that Scientology is "behavior therapy masquerading as a 'church' and making a mockery of honest religious practices." His wife Jocelyn, also a former leader in the church, agrees. She declares, "Most Scientologists simply have no idea of what goes on or how the church is really...
...Jocelyn Field, another Brookline resident who turned down the forced commuter option, said she was angry at Harvard for "taking my application for one form of admission and converting it to another which hadn't been discussed." She accused Harvard of using the "forced commuter" plan for children of alumni and cited the examples of four alumni children accepted as forced commuters from Brookline--two of whom accepted the option...
...Treasury Alarm, Jocelyn Davey's fifth Usher novel, Ambrose is in the exotic city of Boston to deliver a series of lectures at nearby Harvard. The Treasury-"the innerest of inner circles" -asks him to look over an improper Bostonian named George Fletcher, who is busily gobbling up key British companies, possibly for the Soviets. Usher had known and much disliked the conglomerator in his days as an economic attache to the British embassy in Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving...
...Jocelyn Davey is the nom de plume of Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who has been an Oxford don, a Foreign Office functionary and spokesman for the Treasury, and is as volubly at home in the fleshpots of North America as he is among the ar cane outer reaches of literature, music and art. It is no secret that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard...