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...probing, Big Daddy pries out of Brick a reason for his refuge in alcohol: disgust at the world's hypocrisy--or "mendacity," as Brick puts it. Part of this disgust is self-disgust at the outcome of Brick's "pure and true" friendship with his now-dead football pal Skipper, a relationship that was homosexual on one side and, at least latently, on the other. Forced to face truth, Brick turns the tables and reveals that what Big Daddy thinks is a spastic colon is actually a metastasizing malignancy...
Harvard is rated fourth in the championship which is sailed differently from the team racing event. Neff and Middendorf will be sailing in different divisions, and their combined finishes will determine Harvard's finishing position. Each skipper therefore concentrates on sailing his own race and not on trying to help his teammates, who are sailing in a different division...
...Radcliffe skipper Marie Roehm, with crew Sarah Herrick, sailed away with individual honors in the 'B' Division, after a tie-breaking procedure elevated her above a Princeton boat...
...Division, Kathy Angell, skipper, and Pam Mack drove their Lido 14 to a sixth-place finish. Disqualification in one race hurt the crew's individual chances, although it didn't much affect the team standings...
Radcliffe placed second in the nationals last year, with Angell co-skippering in the B division and winning three of her four races. This year she will sail A Division in 15 races, while Roehm takes on the B division competition. The event will be sailed in Lido 14s, a West Coast boat that neither skipper is familiar with...