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The Radcliffe J.V. eight will have Barbara Norris at stroke. Ann Robinson at seven, Gertrude Bancroft at six, Ruth Colker at five, Joyce Mack at four, Bren Buckley at three, Ellen Feld at two, Jane Clark at bow, and Amy Sacks at cox.
Not all questions--however impressive the book's photograph of Robert Earl Hughes. "Heaviest Human of All Time"--are so readily referred to simple ocular evidence. Both McWhirters were unsuccessful Conservative candidates for Parliment in 1964, and Norris is particularly opposed to confiscatory income taxes ("Did I say confiscatory? 106...
"I saw him do it!" Norris says triumphantly.
"Objectivity of tone?" Ross scoffs. "There's lists and lists of phony centenarians." "Have you ever seen a centenarian?" Norris adds. "I've seen three. They're incredibly frail. You're astonished that they live till breakfast."
And yet, for all their book's implacable esthetics, the brothers retain their faith in human nature. In their conversation, there are none of those Biblical-sounding references to vanity, deceit and deliberate fraud. "Generally speaking." Norris remarked last week, putting down his fork, "when people claim a thing they...