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...starboard side, the Crimson will be trying to replace 1977 graduates John Brock and John White. Gardiner admitted yesterday, "John Brock was a really immense guy. You're going to feel his loss...
Nearly everyone seems to be rooting for hapless Australia. Just after the start there is a moment of hope: she edges ahead and tacks to starboard, taking Ted Turner and Courageous with her. But soon the two ships are driving into the haze as they tack toward the windward mark 4.5 miles away. At a distance, they sometimes resemble two white tents set side by side on a field of blue. As Australia drops behind, boredom is kept at bay on Provincetown by the practice of underdoggery, a game I know well from a boyhood spent as a diehard...
...bowman Jon White and senior captain Bill Kerins (at number two) return to box positions. Senior John Brock and junior George Aitken (12-ft. 10-in. collective height, 424-lb. collective weight) will be back at the power five and six positions, and junior Tom Howes will fill the starboard seven spot...
...year's Henley Regatta champion freshman boat to fill in the remaining three seats on the first boat. Gordy Gardiner takes over the stroking chores from Ollie Scholle, Warren Perkins (the four-man) joins Aitken and Brock in a powerful middle section, and Paul Templeton will row in the starboard three position...
...party offered much champagne, delectable finger food and an East Side address (rented for the occasion). A 3-ft-high hazelnut cake with pink icing had tilted to starboard in its box during shipping, but Hostess Shere Hite, author of the bestselling study of female sexuality, The Hite Report, propped it up with her 438-page tome. Hite threw the bash for friends who had helped her through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans...