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Junior Char Joslin, who last year registered a hat trick against Yale, tallied her 24th point of the season at the end of the first period. She glided across the middle, knocking the puck past goaltender Captain Tiff Bingham to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...named Frederick Exley sits on the balcony outside his room in a Honolulu hotel, sipping vodka and heating up steaks on a portable grill. It is his wedding night, and he and his bride have just had their first tiff as husband and wife. Eventually, she stops sulking and joins him. "Dropping to her knees," Exley writes, "she grasped my bare thighs and begged me to please, please, please remove the grilling fork from my chest." Exley, in other words, is up to the same trick he demonstrated in A Fan's Notes (1968) and Pages from a Cold Island...
...Rude and Smooth," the undefeated 1974-5 Harvard men's heavyweight boat, is a fixture at the Head. Former Olympian (1984) and Christopher R. "Tiff" Wood '75, known as "The Hammer," will return this year to lead the "Rude and Smooth" boat...
Featured in David Halberstam's book The Amateurs, Tiff is famous for his immensely powerful stroke. The oarsmen of the "Rude and Smooth," who dismantled Yale in record time, were known for their brash and flamboyant personalities and unparalleled rowing prowess...
Barry Bingham Sr. barely missed the unveiling of his own monument. After a family tiff prompted him to sell the Louisville Courier-Journal and other media properties in 1986, the former publisher put $2.6 million from the sale into financing what is supposed to be the world's tallest (400 ft.) floating fountain. Its 41 jets will spout 15,800 gal. of Ohio River water every minute in a 20-minute computer-controlled cycle of designs, culminating in the fleur- de-lis, Louisville's official symbol. Tens of thousands gathered Friday night to watch the fountain's spectacular debut. Bingham...