Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force, a happy 50th, and some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been...
...result of their efforts, junior A Division skipper Laura Stearns placed eighth on the list of "Top Ten New England Women's Skippers", while junior Jenny Heath ranked third on the list of "Top Five New England Women's Crews...
...Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess matches in Atlanta between Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox, each ending in mate for Torre. There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz--and off the field--Frank Torre getting a new heart on the off day before Game 6. There was the quiet...
Sophomore captain Laura Stearns was the A Division skipper, with classmate Jenny Heath handling duties on her crew. The duo was steady, if not spectacular, garnering eight top-five finishes and never coming in lower than 10th in the two-day event...
Harvard won the A Division with senior Marc Laitin and Molly Merrill working as skipper and crew, respectively. The duo won three races, all on the first day, and added an equal number of second-place finishes. Only twice during the event did they come in lower than sixth...