Word: winsors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FOREVER AMBER-Kafhleen Winsor- Macmillan...
...Kathleen Winsor had always wanted to write something more impressive than the stuff she was paid to write-football stories ("from the woman's point of view") for the Oakland, Calif. Tribune. Not long after her husband, Robert John Herwig, an All-America footballer, brought home a book on King Charles II, she decided to write a novel about the reign of Britain's gamiest monarch...
...nearly two and a half million words, took in a lot of territory; after her husband joined the Marines, Kathleen followed him from camp to camp, lugging her swelling manuscript. Finally, after five years' labor of love, she sent Forever Amber to Macmillan's. To Author Winsor for her first novel Macmillan's sent a staggering advance royalty...
...Bohn of the second Freshmen were then moved into bow and four of the third Varsity, which automatically became the Combination crew, which races a similar Yale crew in the opening event of the Derby festivities. The Combies now line up with Davis, bow; George Nichols, 2; Winsor Soule, 3; Bohn, 4; Jim Donald, 5; Dick Ober, 6; Sohier, 7; Seligam, stroke; and Jimmy Ducey, coxswain...
...place Bolles placed Junior Frank Sayder, who had previously been rowing seven on the thirds. This resulted in a greatly changed third boat, as Marshall, when he came, moved into the five slide sending Texas Jim Donald up to three, where room had been made for his by moving Winsor Sould down to Snyder's old seven position...