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Wright's primary nonlegal passion coincides with that of his No. 1 client, Richard Nixon: he is a football fanatic. Like Nixon, Wright was a sometime college player (right end at Wesleyan in Connecticut). He says, "I'm prouder of having played than anything I've ever done in my life." At the University of Texas, Wright coaches a law school football team (the Legal Eagles) with the same intensity that he studies the law, personally buying matching dark blue jerseys for his players, treating the team to $40 worth of postgame beer-if they...
...Mildred Gillars, alias "Axis Sally," sandwiched Nazi propaganda between records by "der Bingel" Crosby. Her broadcasts eventually drew Mildred a twelve-year stretch in a federal prison for women. Out on parole in 1961, she taught French and German in a suburban school. A long-ago dropout from Ohio Wesleyan University (she had been the first coed to wear knickers on campus in 1920), Mildred, at 72, quietly finished work for her degree-an A.B. in speech...
...lack of financial support. No matter. Women's rowing has not only been launched as a national sport, but it is scudding along at an astonishing pace. In New England alone, Radcliffe has a full schedule of spring meets against all-girl crews from Wellesley, Yale, M.I.T. and Wesleyan. What is more, the best crews will compete in the Women's National Regatta in Philadelphia in June, with a chance to go on to the European Championships in Moscow. Ultimately, the course leads to Montreal and the 1976 Olympics, where women's crew will be an officially...
Earlier this year, Middletown finished a surprising third to Radcliffe and the Philadelphia Women's Rowing Club in a race at Wesleyan...
...Wesleyan looked incredibly bad in the contest, finishing way, way back in fourth place. Trinity didn't finish the race after the team's stroke popped her knee out a third into the race. Yale, the "paper entry" of the regatta, lived up to pre-race expectations and did not appear. But the Eli women did send word to the rest of the field...