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NICK LAVECCHIA Parker, Texas...
...dramatic by the alternating surge of each crew’s bow ball.Everyone expected No. 1 Cornell to be up front. But No. 5 Harvard? At a 41? By all counts, the Crimson should have been gassed by the final 500 meters. “Apparently, [heavyweight coach] Harry Parker came up to some of the guys and said, ‘Congratulations, guys. That’s the bravest race I’ve ever seen rowed,’” Hafner says.The Crimson came up just 0.076 seconds short, falling in the narrowest of photo finishes...
...heavyweight boats underwent a shake-up after a win against Northeastern to end the dual season. Head coach Harry Parker put them through their paces in even boats, searching for a spark after a somewhat lackluster season for the first varsity, which won Sprints and IRAs...
...Going to Eastern Sprints, I was nervous,” Kitovitz admits. “But you’ve got to accept that Harry Parker is a legend, and if he has faith in me, I have faith...
...Parker's characters are so tough and self-assured, you want to grab the lapels of their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his 34th Spenser mystery, the macho posturing is tempered by a plot that turns on his hero's vulnerability and one of his good deeds gone bad. A runaway he rescued from a life of low-rent prostitution (by putting her in the care of a high-priced madam...