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Harvard completed Sunday's 2000-meter final in 5:24, five seconds ahead of Brown and nine seconds ahead of third-place North-eastern. The victory had international significance since Cambridge and Oxford, billed as two of the pre-race favorites, failed to make the final. Wisconsin and UCLA, which were also preceded by impressive reputations, failed to make the final as well...
...drama served up by his favorite authors (among them John Buchan and Joseph Conrad) reminded Greene that he had been born at an unpropitious time. "We were," he wrote, "a generation brought up on adventure stories who had missed the enormous disillusionment of the First World War." At Oxford, he dabbled in writing and later drifted into newspaper work, eventually becoming a subeditor at the London Times...
There he might have stayed had it not been for his stubborn conviction that he could become a writer and his marriage to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, whom he had met at Oxford. She was a Roman Catholic, and in 1926 Greene had converted to her faith. He later recalled his feelings after formally being received into the church: "There was no joy in it at all, only a somber apprehension." Greene never took his religion lightly, and the Catholicism that would come to stamp his fiction served both as a stern gauge by which to measure the behavior of fallen...
...Kennedys that night: Michele Cassone, a waitress. In one version, she says she, Patrick and the Senator sat and talked on the deck outside for a while. Later in the morning when she was alone with Patrick, the Senator walked into the room. "He was dressed in just an Oxford shirt as far as I could tell," Cassone recalls. "I couldn't see if he had shorts or what underneath, and I got nervous and decided to leave." Cassone says the investigator hired by the Kennedys seemed relieved by her recollection, however unflattering, since it distanced Kennedy from the alleged...
...Rhodes scholar, he spent one year reading history at Oxford University and then switched to English, eventually receiving first class honors in his field...