Word: philadelphians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest news of the 108-year-old Henley Royal Regatta was the victory of 20-year-old Philadelphian John B. Kelly Jr. In the same race 27 years ago, Kelly's father, a champion Olympic sculler, was denied the right to compete because he had once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight...
Despite the assertions of Philadelphian water fans that Penn has their best team in twenty years, they should prove a comparative rest for the Varsity after Rutgers. Navy beat Penn 45 to 30, the same treatment that the Annapolis visitors received at the Indoor Athletic Building...
Died. Logan Pearsall Smith, 80, critic and essayist whose ironic, japanned prose* (All Trivia, On Reading Shakespeare) brought him only closet fame; in London. Philadelphian by birth, Londoner by choice, he felicitously chronicled small beer and rusticated in Literature Past, only now & then spoke over his shoulder to Literature Present such querulous words as: Why does Ezra Pound...
This week in Hartford, Conn., the first national championship since 1942 was fought out on the spic-&-span, allwood courts of the Hartford Golf Club. Defending Champion Charlie Brinton, 26, is a Philadelphian, and an ex-G.I. So is his No. 1 rival, lanky Hunter Lott, 31. (Philadelphia, where squash racquets got its start in the U.S., is still the game's top center.) Both came through the prelims easily, clashed in the finals. Lott won the first game, but then began to tire. Charlie Brinton still had his old mixture of low killers and tantalizing drop shots...
Primrose's 1945 fiddle, five-eighths of an inch longer than his Amati, was built by the only U.S.-born member of the 300-year-old European Guild of Violinmakers, a stocky, shy Philadelphian named William Moennig Jr. Moennig also does all the repairing on Efrem Zimbalist's Stradivari violin, Gregor Piatigorsky's Montagnana cello.* Moennig, 40, and his 62-year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing...