Word: royals
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Another key performance, but one that almost didn't materialize, was Tom Royal's win in the 200-yd. breaststroke. Somewhat confused over the order of events, Royal was found at the other end of the pool warming up when the call to the blocks for his race came. With Harvard in some danger of losing the meet that this point, coach Joe Bernal quickly gave Royal a personal escort to the starting blocks. Penalized one false start for his tardiness, the Crimson breaststroker had to remain clam at the start as each of the three Penn swimmers in turn...
...drift across the U.S. He worked for a time as a busboy at the MGM Grand Hotel but is not thought to have set the fire there that killed 84 people last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires-at the Royal Americana in December and the Dunes in January -that are believed to have been deliberately set. Two fires, one in December and one in January, were quickly extinguished in the El Cortez hotel, where Cline had worked briefly. He had been dismissed after being charged with the theft of $747.50 from...
...NOTEBOOK--Despite the Crimson's general success, one aquaman found a way to lose even when he finished first. Tom Royal was officially inducted into the Harvard Men's DQ Club during the meet when he managed to be disqualified in all three of his individual events. In the 200-yd, breastroke, Royal had his gold medal taken away when the judge accused him of putting his whole head under water during his stroke. In the 100-yd, butterfly his legs were spread during his kick, and in the 100-yd, breastroke the judge caught him taking an extra pull...
...illustrated account of the glorious years from 1815 to the mid-1920s, from The Barber of Seville to Turandot. "All we contemporary composers, without exception, are so many pygmies beside this great master," Bellini said of Rossini. But he was wrong. Geniuses followed each other like monarchs in a royal procession: Bellini himself, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Opera lovers became so accustomed to dazzling new works that they thought the parade would never end, that the extraordinary had become the usual...
...predictability is irritating as the band crafts each record and each song to sound slightly different than the last: Royal Scam ushered in horn sections; Aja added extended orchestration. Some call Gaucho the quintessential Steely Dan. It "took three years to make," the ads brag. The ads don't mention the contract dispute and auto accident that actually delayed the album. You're supposed to think Dan put more thought into Gaucho than the albums it churned out annually. Not so. When Becker and Fagen assemble an album, it's like a political party picking a presidential candidate: the question...