Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting...
...race was lost, but Rod Carnegie's Revolution had not really failed. It had jolted the staid foundation of British rowing, which has won few honors since World War II. Carrying one crewman as almost deadweight cargo, Oxford's American-style stroke had done so well it could no longer be ignored...
...more than any other man on the river, Roderick Carnegie, 24. the mop-haired Aussie pulling Oxford's No. 7 sweep, was entitled to a bellyful of butterflies. Win or lose, this year the oldest of college boat races belonged to him. This was the payoff to "Rod's Revolution," the big test of his brash attack on the traditional style of British rowing...
...Rod Story. In Las Vegas, Nev.. Salesman Clyde Ashby was acquitted of charges of fishing in Lake Mead without a license when he protested that he was only trying to fish out a fishing rod lost in the lake...
McCurdy mentioned that much of the team's showing was a good deal of luck, an ability to take advantage of the breaks. The defection of Princeton's Rod Zwirner and Dick Knorr in the triangular meet, or of Cornell's John King in the Heps certainly did not hurt the varsity. Yet such an argument is valid only if the varsity had not had its own troubles. For had Joel Cohen, broad jumper Dave Gately, Robertson, Anderson, et al. not been injured, the varsity's power would have reached frightening proportions in comparison to its Heptagonal rivals...