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Harvard trailed Marist for most of the race but pulled away to win by three-quarters of a length...
...Donoghue had never rowed with the freshman boat until it approached the starting line. The end result of his debut was one of the closest races of the tournament—a three-quarter length victory over Oxford Brookes. The win gave O’Donoghue a rare second Henley medal...
...Harvard ‘B’ boat dominated all competition it faced. Of its four races leading up to the final, none finished closer than a length and three-quarters back. While most of the Crimson’s club opposition was relatively unfamiliar compared to university boats, the Harvard crews were confident that they would win due to their heavy training in the fall that many of the club teams lacked...
...block his lens. There are quite a few shots like that in the retrospective of Galella's work that opens this week at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa. There are even more of them in The Photographs of Ron Galella (Greybull Press; 258 pages; $75), a career-length compilation published earlier this year. Since his first days as an Air Force photographer getting shots of the stars who visited his base, Galella, now 71, has been chasing celebrities. Some prance for him willingly. Some endure his attentions as the price of fame. A few try to break...
...heart. In 1954, in the midst of the cold war against godless communism, President Eisenhower urged Congress to add the words under God to the oath to reaffirm "the transcendence of religious faith in America?s heritage and future." Now faced with a war of uncertain definition and length, the country has once again embraced the pledge as a talisman against harm...