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Harvard had split its varsity light-weight crew in two for the races. The winning Harvard straight foursome (without cox) consisted of Topher Cutler, Bill Braun, Ken Moler, and Monk Terry...
...interest in a film about the truelife Lavender Hill Mob. What has held up production is worry over the country's stringent libel laws, and a ruling by Britain's film censorship board that such a movie might prejudice the still incomplete case. Meanwhile, German Producer Egon Monk has stolen the story from them. He shot 80% of the movie in England, changing names but otherwise retelling the robbery in straightforward documentary style...
...plot meanders down the familiar path to self-discovery that earlier pilgrims-Aldous Huxley, Maugham himself-have trod before. The hero is Oliver, who, like Isherwood, has become fascinated by Oriental mysticism. He decides to become a monk-a step that Isherwood considered but never took-and goes to India to become a swami. On the eve of the final vow-taking, his elder brother Patrick, a London publisher and one of the most cheerfully decadent characters in recent fiction, appears at Oliver's monastery by the Ganges. Unable to leave so much integrity untouched, Patrick tempts Oliver with...
Juniors Brian Sullivan, cox, and Monk Terry, stroke, start their third year together and have yet to be beaten. Senior Mike Radetsky, last year's bowman, will row at seven, while classmate Roger Cheever, who rowed on the varsity as a sophomore, returns this spring as bowman in the German-rigged boat...
Sheer Monkery. Much to his parents' dismay, Luther kept the vow, two weeks later entered the Augustinian priory at Erfurt. Luther was a pious cleric. "I kept the rule so strictly," he recalled years later, "that I may say that if ever a monk got to Heaven by his sheer monkery it was I. If I had kept on any longer, I should have killed myself with vigils, prayers, reading and other work...