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...meters from the finish a Harvard oarsman "caught crab" dipping his oar in too quickly and throwing off the stroke cadence. The crew just barely maintained its lead to edge out M.I.T...
Reasonable & Real. A onetime No. 2 oar at Penn who shifted to single sculls after college, won the national championship and a Pan American Games gold medal in 1959, Parker says: "What I look for is somebody with reasonable size and a very real interest in athletics." His favorite way of testing that interest is with drills like "stadiums"-races up and down the steps of the Harvard stadium, run at the rate of 50 times per rower per day. "Most of the things around here are boring as hell," grunted Stroke Ian Gardiner last week, as he hefted...
...Johnny gets angry at ineffectual, inefficient people who don't do their job properly," says McMahon. "It bugs him when people don't pull their oar." Sometimes it bugs him on the air. Not long ago, when some stagehands were chattering while Carson was on, the star turned and snapped coldly: "Are you fellows through...
...indispensable to a conductor's success and, as such, is guarded and pampered like a mistress. Sir John Barbirolli refers to his man as his "chief of staff," Eugene Ormandy's is his "mind reader," William Steinberg's his "seismograph," Donald Johanos' his "stroke oar...
...merry men do things that way. Out in Central Park to dedicate a new Fountain Café, Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet, and toured the environs atop a "cherry picker" used to replace street lights. Funny...