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...STORMY WEATHER, the distinguished actor and dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson wandered down a cinematic memory lane to reacquaint himself and the audience with the many talented musicians, dancers and singers who shared his past. To the tune of its sultry title song by Lena Horne, the film successfully paraded the talents of famous Black entertainers and provided a classic history of Black images in American movies. But Stormy Weather never attempted to present the realities faced by Black entertainers in American show business; rather, it presented a mature Black actor, held dear by white and Black audiences, strolling down...
...even the times postaged at the Cambridge Boat Club were not official results. But no one was confused. At least not as confused as the crew of the power cruiser that found itself in the middle of the racing lane during the youth fours race in the morning...
...their docks from the finish of the lightweight eight race (which St. Catharine's Rowing Club of Canada won with an unofficial time of 15:23.1), the skipper of the pleasure boat threw a line to a passing kayaker, who then towed the boat out of the racing lane...
...October morning in Cairo. In the modern suburb of Nasr City, tank and truck engines were coughing to life as the troops began their final preparations for the big parade: the President, as every soldier knew, demanded nothing less than crisp precision and split-second timing. Already the six-lane parade route had been cleared of traffic, and 2,000 portable chairs were neatly arrayed in the reviewing stand across from the pyramid-shaped monument that is Egypt's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
Naturally, some boats in the race will be faster than others. As the faster ones pass the slower ones, the slower crews are supposed to move to the right. Ulrich said that while there usually aren't many glaring infractions, "in the heat of battle, someone will hog the lane...