Word: oarsman
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When Princess Grace of Monaco died last summer in an auto crash, her brother John B. Kelly Jr., 55, led the members of their prominent Philadelphia family at the funeral. Last week Kelly was shot by a mugger near a gas station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The onetime Olympic oarsman, in town to give a rowing demonstration, was making a call from a phone booth when he was approached by a man with a small-caliber revolver who demanded money. Kelly tried to push him away, and the man shot him in the thigh. Kelly's doctors...
...election to the paper, disaster of a sort struck--The Harvard Lampoon issued it first-ever parody of The Crimson, a stinging sheet playing on the stolid greyness that was the paper's hallmark in its early days. The lead story discussed in excruciating detail the replacement of one oarsman with another; buried beneath it was a one-paragraph item headlined "A Dangerous Attempt." A passerby, the item informed readers, had noticed a lighted fuse attached to Memorial Hall; at its end was enough pieric acid not only to "wreck" Memorial Hall but also to damage some adjacent buildings. Another...
...championship singles, former Harvard oarsman Tiff Wood '75 nipped former Yale oarsman John Bigelow. Wood, seeded first, finished with an unofficial time of 18:15.1; Bigelow, seeded 12th, finished unofficially...
...Clive Livingston, the oarsman who rowed directly in front of Higgins, accompanied him on his four month journey down to the Caribbean. Before that trip, Livingston spent a few years studying and writing a book on the role of athletics in American society. He is now enrolled in a mid-career program in public policy and administration at the Kennedy School of Government...
...oarsman who could not make it to that tenth reunion was the stroke, Art Evans. "I really wanted to go, but I was busy delivering my third child that day," Evans, an obstetrician, recalled. Evans is now on a fellowship at the University of California at Irvine, where he is also an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. After he completes his fellowship, Evans plans to return to his position on the staff at the Mayo Clinic...