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...indefatigible spirit lagged briefly last fall when he wasn't 'boated' for the Head of the Charles race. He stopped rowing, hacked around playing rugby and House tackle football, but his soul and spirit still belonged to Newell Boathouse. It took less than a month before Harvard's shortest rower since 1907 (according to the record books) was back in the tanks...
Naturally pleased with his perfect record, Hanower still felt he fenced a "little sloppily" in his first two bouts. In his third, however, he fenced extremely efficiently, polishing off his foe in 19 seconds, three seconds shy of the unofficial record for the shortest Crimson victory ever...
...send reporters there, and late last year we reopened our Johannesburg bureau, closed since 1962. Our new bureau chief, William McWhirter, who had orders from New York to "cover everyone and everything," was some what apprehensive. Says he: "No one knew whether this was to be one of the shortest recorded assignments in the magazine's history...
This perspective comes across strongly in Costello's lyrics. "Welcome to the Working Week," the album's opening track, is at 1:22 its shortest cut and an introduction to what's to come. A driving middle-tempo rocker with drums mixed way up and biting guitar riffs, it's an ironic salute to a friend's new success. The message is clear--"Deal with it if you can." Blame It On Cain" shows a strong persecution complex ("Blame it on Cain, don't blame it on me..."); "Sneaky Feelings" is a bouncy, silly tune about paranoia and screwed...
Despite his strength and bat speed, Carew completely avoids the modern hitter's greatest weakness: the instinct to pull the pitch on the shortest line to the nearest fence. The lust for the long ball and the glory of homers has contributed as much to the decline in high-average hitters in the post-World War II era as the oft-cited rise of relief pitching. Trying to cream a fastball low and away is a sure way to strike...