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Early-season predictions of Tiger strength have become rather regular phenomena in the racing world. Starting its schedule with two easy races against Rutgers and against a Navy crew which annually meets windy and rough conditions on the Severn River before competition begins, Princeton usually comes to Cambridge with an impressive record...
Navy has traditionally been a late-starting crew. The Middies take to the water for spring work-outs much later than most Eastern schools and are plagued by swells and choppy conditions on the Severn River course at Annapolis...
...lengths. A week later, on Princeton's choppy Lake Carnegie, the Cantabs knocked an incredible 20.8 sec. from the Compton Cup 1¾-mile record, swamping M.I.T. by 7 lengths and Princeton 9½ lengths. In the 1¾-mile Adams Cup regatta on Annapolis' Severn River, they finished 5½ lengths ahead of Navy and 9½ lengths in front of Pennsylvania. The 2,000-meter Eastern Sprints on Worcester's Lake Quinsigamond were a little closer: Harvard walloped undefeated Cornell by 2½ lengths-widest margin in the Sprint's 20-year history. "Even...
...heavyweight crow Saturday's race at Navy was a new experience--the night did not break a record. A stiff headwind on the Severn slowed the race considerably Harvard finished 8:52.5, well off the 8:24.2 record for the one and three quarter mile distance set in 1941 by another Crimson crew...
...fails to find Goldstein, or even to get a fix on his own identity. Instead, the sculptor falls in with Novelist Nelson Algren, who is interviewed at home among portraits of relatives, nudes and famous boxers. To raise everyone's low spirits, a pair of Manhattan abortionists (Severn Darden and Anthony Holland) are flown in to minister to the sculptor's girl friend. In a campy comedy sequence played for somewhat more than it is worth, they debate the merits of Leonardo da Vinci while performing their grisly chore, then depart for Kansas City. "One of the most...