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PARKER, IN 1964, was one of the first Americans to experiment with the Ayling shovel oars that had been used so successfully on the Continent. That year, Harvard was tabbed "the world's best crew" (rather prematurely, as it happened) by Sports Illustrated, and from that time on, others were quick to take up what Parker espoused...
...also inspired some awful jokes (sample: a WPA worker sued the Government when the shovel he was leaning on broke). Still it gave eating money in hard times to some Americans who later became famous, including Actors Orson Welles and Burt Lancaster and Artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Oh yes, and a fellow named Richard Nixon earned 350 an hour from the National Youth Administration, a division of the WPA, for doing research in the Duke University law library...
...works. Grendel's victims perversely take these random torments as signs of divine and purposeful displeasure. They obstinately go on fooling themselves that man can shape the world. Years pass. Grendel grows bored. When Beowulf comes, powerfully secure in his delusions and with the grip of a steam shovel, it is almost a relief...
...beside Catholics for a generation. As fears rose, extremists set some 200 houses ablaze: many were Protestants destroying their own homes before fleeing to safer districts. "We're getting out," said one, "but no Catholic will get these houses." A Catholic resident lamented, "In winter we used to shovel snow off each other's paths; now everybody is cutting each other's throat...
...labor leader, a rarity when set against his own background. And yet Tom Berrigan was so loyal a Catholic that his worldly inclinations could be reversed when his creed was at stake; in 1949, a gravediggers' strike hit the archdiocese of New York City, and Tom Berrigan appeared shovel in hand to help Cardinal Spellman break the strike...