Word: tiffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the crews of Courageous and Southern Cross battled for the America's Cup in Rhode Island Sound, members of the Newport Reading Room were embroiled in a teapot-sized tiff of their own. As a story by Reporter Sally Quinn in the Washington Post had it, New York Senator Jacob Javits, who is Jewish, and his wife Marion were all but tossed out of the tony old club when they arrived for a prerace dance as guests of Nuala and Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator. Quinn's intimations of anti-Semitism raised speedy protests...
...land. The meeting between the Eastern and Western Sprint champions was billed as the first real race for the national heavyweight title. Although many critics doubted whether Harvard could hold its own against the Huskies, stroke Al Shealy, Steve Row, captain Dave Fellows, Rick Cashin, Ed Woodhouse, Tiff Wood, Blair Brooks, Ollie Scholle, and cox Dave Weinberg had little trouble in proving their claim as the best...
Parker will be sending to the starting line the same eight that has been successful thus far this season: coxswain David Weinberg, A1 Sheahy at stroke, Steve Rowe at seven, Dick Cashin at six, captain Dave Fellows at five, Ed Woodhouse at three, Tiff Wood at the four spot, Ollie Scholle at two and Blair Brooks...
Harvard has six lettermen returning from last year's varsity eight. The six are coxswain David Weinberg, Al Shealy at stroke, Steve Rowe at seven, Dick Cashin at six, Captain Dave Fellows at five, and Ed Woodhouse in the number three seat. The newcomers are Tiff Wood at the four spot, Blair Brooks at bow, and Ollie Scholle, the only sophomore to make the varsity squad...
...agreed to tour the world promoting the virtues of single womanhood. In no time, however, Marjorie overdid it. Her love life sizzled into the headlines: Singer Tom Jones was photographed giving her a soulful kiss, Millionaire Peter Revson was seen squiring her around, and last month, after a tiff, Britain's swinging Soccer Star George Best allegedly broke into Marjorie's London apartment and stole her passport, checkbook, correspondence, liquor and her fur coat, plus other miscellaneous loot. The British organizers of the contest decided that Marjorie's idea of being single was giving "the wrong impression...