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...rower--the first Harvard undergraduate to make the 1984 U.S. Olympic team--entered Harvard as a star athlete in 1979, but during his freshman year he was asked to leave for disciplinary reasons. Sudduth, however, has rebounded in style, using the time away from Cambridge to become one of the world's best oarsmen...
This year, the oarswoman, who is not only a top-notch collegiate rower but also a legitimate contender for the national lightweight team, moved into the bow of the Radcliffe heavies and teamed with Pugh to direct one of the squad's finest seasons ever...
Hale, a veteran rower, cited the fact that the crew boasts more talent than last year's squad, which finished the 1983 season with record...
...think I did a credible job. I wanted to give a 'mise en scène,' and it catches the flavor of her whole life." Trouble is, Heymann's "flavor" often seems to leave a bad taste. His 1976 book Ezra Pound: The Last Rower contained what Heymann said was an original interview with the poet. Critic Hugh Kenner, however, found a remarkably similar one in an obscure Italian journal printed years before. Scholars have charged that Heymann's 1980 volume on the prominent Lowell family of Massachusetts, American Aristocracy, was filled with wrong dates...
Wood won his medal at Dursburg in a boat fitted with a sliding rigger, which means that the rower sits in a fixed seat and the our assembly moves back and forth. From the standpoint of physics, it means a faster boat, because instead of a 190-pound oarsman moving back and forth, a 30-pound set of oars is moving back and forth...