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...heavyweights put their top rowers in the Championship Men’s Fours race, where a Harvard boat directed by junior coxswain Chris Kingston and rowed by Pucsek, senior Richard Anderson, and juniors Anthony Locke and David Wakulich finished in third. The Crimson spent most of the race in hot pursuit of the Camp Randall Rowing Club—the eventual second-place finisher...
...consumers in the late '50s, folk music was the Kingston Trio, with their frat-boy élan and their repertoire purloined from Seeger and other traditionalists. Then one man suggested that the genre could be bigger. "The American public is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of folk music," said Albert Grossman, a Chicago entrepreneur, at the first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform...
...brothers and my sisters" and helped make the number an anthem for the decade's civil-rights movement. Their rendition was a highlight of the 1963 March on Washington; another was Martin Luther King Jr.'s delivery of his "I Have a Dream" speech. Unlike the studiously apolitical Kingston Trio, PP&M attached their celebrity to progressive causes - and would continue to do so over the 47-year life of the group...
...September 2 opinion piece “Old King Coal” (Op-ed, ANTHONY P. DEDOUSIS) contained errors about the impact of the ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant. TVA is responsible for the spill and its clean-up, and we would like your readers to have the facts...
...does not make deep movies, and has no interest in delivering any kind of message. “Inglourious Basterds” may be lightweight, but that is only appropriate for yet another feather in Tarantino’s illustrious cap. —Staff writer Chris R. Kingston can be reached at kingston@fas.harvard.edu...