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Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records--which they insist is "not like Ripley's Believe it or Not"--they have learned that no unauthenticated claim can be accepted, that "the strictures which apply...
"He said he used calculus without ever having learned about it," the filial, but still skeptical, grandson explains carefully. (Norris is engaged in finishing all his own roast beef and a fraction of his identical twin's sentences.) "It is a difficult thing to check, isn't it? But he...
And yet...it leaves them feeling unsatisfied. Norris looks up from his roast beef: he, too, admits to no exaggerated enthusiasm for his clever grandfather's astronomic prowess. As Ross recalls the happy evenings spent in collective star-gazing. Norris nods his head.
The first Radcliffe four, Yale, and the University of New Hampshire finished ahead of Symington and Radcliffe's Robin Lothrop (bow), Anne Robinson (3), Barbara Norris (stroke), and Amy Sacks (cox).
Only six contestants participated in the women's division. Barbara Norris (Dunster House) won the race, followed by Debbie McLane (Eliot House) and Alma Heywards (Lowell House).