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Once again, no one came close to breaking the meet record in the broad jump (25'3") set 50 years ago by Ned Gourdin '21 Harvard's Olympian. S. H. White of Oxford was the winner last night with a leap...
...revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is of Olympian stature, the finest work that has ever been done there. In voice and bearing, Philip Bosco's Creon is an image of power and arrogance until he receives his terrible rebuke. Martha Henry's Antigone is a female javelin seeking death and wielding it. The myth may say that Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men. Actually, he gave it to women like Antigone and her formidable sisters, Medea and Electra and Helen...
They have been practicing all week to speed up their leg drive and for the first time in many years they have abandoned their characteristic German rigging for the more conventional standard rigging. Ted Nash has also improved the strength of his port side with the addition of Olympian Luther Jones, who while still at Penn, has been stroking the Vesper eight this spring...
Penn's impending dynasty is perhaps the most quickly constructed one in history. Coach George Breen, a former Olympian, attracts the talent, works it to the bone, and convinces would-be quitters that leaving the team is analogous to mutiny...
...thus producing the memorable sight of the two skippers treading water and shaking hands. Yet the end of the 21st cup defense was only a beginning. What used to be a private competition between the U.S. and its English-speaking cousins (Canada, Britain, Australia) is becoming an event of Olympian proportions. As of last week, a tentative line-up for the 1973 race included two challengers from France, Australia and Britain, and one each from West Germany, Canada and Italy. And who will sail for the defense? The victorious Intrepid syndicate lost no time announcing that it will make...