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Throughout last week, American newspapers neglected the Leander Rowing Club in their coverage of the Thames Cup at the Henley Regatta. On Saturday, Harard's lightweight crew found out about the British eight for themselves, and for the second consecutive summer, the Crimson will return from England empty-handed...
Harvard's loss to Leander was only one part of the blackest day for America in several years at Henley: seven United States entries had survived until the final two rounds last Saturday; only one, a Virginia high-school eight, won any championship that afternoon...
...save hardened English rowing enthusiasts, had paid attention to Leander even though it had taken the Thames Cup with relative ease last July. It was a mistake both Harvard and Penn were to discover later. The Britishers had quietly brushed off early-round competition and early Friday unceremoniously dumped the Isis Boat Club to gain the semifinals...
...Henley Regatta with a vengence this week. It attacked it on Saturday, when the Crimson dumped Cambridge University by a half-length, breaking the record on the quarter-mile practice course. It attacked it on Sunday, during a practice run, when Harvard shattered the half-mile record, set by Leander Boat Club last summer, by over four seconds...
...Cheever. He has always been something of a Christian soldier in mufti, a man more kin to John Bunyan than to John Updike. Cheever's formula for circumventing disorder and the Devil has never strayed far from the New England legacy of his first full-length character, old Leander Wapshot. "Bathe in cold water every morning," Leander counseled his sons. "Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date exurban alarums and filial excursions-including creeping despair...