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...newspaper had initiated the story: we weren't content to list him among the other blue ribbon winners at the Jefferson County Fair, which would have been the normal treatment of the boy. All I could say to myself and to my editor was, why highlight the tragedy again? His rejoinder: Just think, he might have become a burden on society. At the time, the experience was too painful for me to think about, so I resorted to a formula and wrote the cheery, overcoming adversity story. After all, no one wants to read about tragedy in the Farm...
...those oarsmen who do succumb to the alluring film, Red Top quickly emerges as a highlight of the rowing experience. The 16-mile trek out to the lighthouse and back, a typical early-morning fare in the workout menu, is somehow slightly sweetened by the thoughts of an afternoon round of croquet, lawn bowling or broth following the early evening row. Red Top puts back the old-styled gentlemanliness into rowing...
...highlight of the meet for the women came when Joyce Decius set a Radcliffe track record in the discus with a toss of 107 ft. 5 in. Finishing third in the discus competition, Decius came back to finish fourth in the shot with a toss...
...highlight of the match was the fine two-under-per 34 on the front nine turned in by Zurkow...
...individual highlight of the tournament for Harvard came when Tom Yellin, hitting into the wind and rain on the second day, drove a three-wood 215 yards into the hole for an eagle two on the par four 440-yard sixth hole...