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...other women racers turned in strong performances in their first-ever races. Sometime rower Wikki Royden finished 22nd "on hard-core crew strength," Captain Singer said yesterday. Judy Giddes came in 28th...
After this hour of exertion, the women leave the boat ready for the "hard part" of the practice. Post-rows are the "killers" which "really make you ache," according to one rower...
...Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era, the incomplete information in Charles Norman's biography, published in 1960, 12 years before Pound's death or Noel stock's The Life of Ezra Pound, completed two years before the poet died. But for all of its problems, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower provides us with one particularly important piece of information. That at least early in the 1960s Ezra Pound was still supporting Fascism. Heymann gives us this information where Kenner had said that "silence descended" on Pound in 1960, as a result of his sickness and ensuing surgery. Heymann tells...
...beat, however, appears to be Dennis Conner. And he will neither lack the weight (his crew Con Finley, an Olympic gold medal rower, is 6 ft., 7 in., 225 lbs.) nor sailing time, even though he has only been sailing in the class for a year. Since he bought two Tempests after the 1975 pre-Olympics at Kingston, Conner has spent some 200 days in his boat...
Second year lightweight coach Peter Huntsman isn't quite as fortunate as Raymond. Huntsman has only three rowers back from last year's first boat which finished second in the Eastern Sprints and lost by five feet in the National Championships. But two heavyweight rowers who slimmed down, and three strong novice oarswomen, including Barbara Pearce, who made the unlikely switch from coxswain to rower, have bolstered the 'Cliffe 125 pounders...