Word: parkers
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...races will be held August 2 to 5 at Winnipeg, Canada. Harry Parker, coach of Harvard's undefeated heavies (who are also the heaviest heavies in Crimson history) has finished the two-week, twice-a-day workouts on the Charles and now is giving his rowers their final week's training. The Crimson will be employing the same lineup and tactics which it has used ever since the second race of the season...
What's more, they did it all in an old shell. Sitting in the Crimson boathouse is a new 50 ft. English racing shell that Coach Harry Parker, 31, bought last winter to replace Harvard's heavier 56-ft. Swiss shell. His varsity oarsmen have never been able to use the new boat-simply because, at an average 6 ft. 3 in. and 196 Ibs. per man, they are too big to get into...
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...
Both tributes seem mannered, calculated, polished for technical effect. But then, Dorothy Parker accepted whole the two-faced myth of her time: at her most maudlin, she always tried to speak through her head rather than directly from her heart. That accounts for both her limitation and her fascination...
Humor was, after all, her basic form of dress and address. And humor passes through the most ephemeral of fashions. The concept of wit, the very word, today suggests a dated elegance. Gone is the vintage innocence, masquerading as chic, that Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind...