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Tying world records seems to be Jim Hines's fate-so far. When he was a senior at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Calif. Hines tied Jesse Owens' 31-year-old schoolboy mark of 9.4 sec. for 100 yds. That earned him a $1,200-a-year scholarship to Texas Southern. But when Hines first turned out for track at T.S.U., Coach Stan Wright was appalled: "Jim's starts were awful. He didn't concentrate...
Next year, of course, the Olympics. After that, Hines figures to add a few pounds to his 6-ft. 1-in., 180-lb. frame and play pro football-although he has not tried on a helmet since he was a senior in high school. He is already counting the bonus he intends to collect: "Somewhere between...
...Vesper Boat Club is something else again. Vesper edged the Crimson in the 1964 Olympic trials, and went on to Tokyo. Parker says there is "no guarantee" that Vesper -- with an almost totally new roster -- is as strong this year, but last week its senior eight scored an impressive two-length victory over the New York Athletic Club shell. NYAC is also rated strongly, and will probably enter the trials at Orchard Beach...
Harvard will enter the Navy Cup contest for senior fours-with-cox, and also the Princeton Cup for straight fours (without...
...Just before graduation, he married Jean Stafford. Two years his senior, she was intense, beautiful, a gifted writer of fiction (she later wrote Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) and an assistant professor at Stevens College in Columbia, Mo. And so, with his marriage, his graduation and his conversion, he at last stood outside the long shadow of Beacon Hill. He would deal with its traditional claims upon him only in his own terms: in poetry. And he would write New England's epitaph rather than a Frostian celebration...