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When Chip Robie arrived at Harvard from Choate, he brought a huge squash swing and very brisk drives. But he had little conception of what he was doing on the squash court except that he was hitting hard...
...Dave [Harvard squash coach Dave fish] looked at me," Robie remembers, "changed my swing, and taught me what seemed like a million new things about squash After throwing the kitchen sink at me, he let me digest it, and four years later I'm playing great squash...
Fleming went into the Yale-Brown we send needing 44 points to reach the 1000-point plateau, and after a 14-point effort against the Elis, and missing five of his first six shots against Brown, his chances looked less than promising. But the 6-ft. 4-in, swing-man kept firing it up and before long hit the stride that made him the all-time leading Harvard scorer...
...During a 1970 campaign swing, a reporter called out to [Rockefeller] as he boarded his plane, 'Hey, Governor, there's more than your image showing.' Indeed, the seat of his trousers had split... 'Get me the sewing kit.' Sitting unselfconsciously in his shorts, he sewed up the seam... while reporters and staff first gaped, then cheered as he completed the rescue. He looked up with the smile of one who knows he has pleasantly startled. 'See. I went to a progressive school...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...