Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing weekend for Harvard towers and in some ways, a very embarrassing one. The Crimson's varsity eight had appeared on the cover of Sports illustrated June 22, and the cover picture was captioned "Coach Harry Parker and the World's Best Crew...
This wouldn't have been as embarrassing as it was for Harvard-- after all, the Vesper and Ratzeburg crews are older and more experienced than the Crimson--if Harvard officials hadn't acted all spring as if they believed their press clippings. The week before the race coach Harry Parker filled the Boston papers with comments that exuded confidence. "These boys could win pulling an old barge with broomsticks," was Parker's day-of-race bulletin...
VACATION PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A summer anthology series made up of pilot films and tapes for new TV shows that didn't make it. The first episode stars Suzy Parker as a wood nymph sentenced (for vanity) to performing 100 good deeds among mortals. Premi...
...Harvard: its 100th boat race with Yale, by ten lengths; on New London's rainswept Thames River. Considered one of the alltime great crews (TIME, June 18), Coach Harry Parker's unbeaten Crimson, victors over Navy, Cornell, Princeton, M.I.T. and nine other challengers this season, was expected to win with ease-and so it did, low-stroking to the finish in the relaxed time of 19 min. 41.6 sec., some...
Tulips on Cedar. Parker knows what's going on. He starred on Pennsylvania's varsity from 1955 to '57, then shifted to single sculls and in 1959 won the National championship and the Pan American Games gold medal, went all the way to the finals of Britain's Henley regatta before losing. A few months later, Harvard offered him a job coaching its frosh, moved him up to the varsity in 1963 when Head Coach Harvey Love died. "This sport tends to be conservative," says Parker. "I'm inclined to try things...