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...boat fell behind Imperial College of London and never recovered, losing by three-quarters of a length. Imperial College went on to lose to Cambridge University, which beat Princeton to reach the final...
Harvard began competition with a two-length win over the University of Bristol in the second round...
...also went out into the desert to film some sequences. The desert contains the longest fence ever built, more than twice the length of the Great Wall of China--3,307 miles of wire-and-post fencing, running dead straight to the horizon in both directions. It is known as the Dog Fence because it is meant to keep dingoes inside northern Australia and out of South Australia, so they won't massacre the sheep. If the wind blows your hat over the fence, it's gone forever. The Dog Fence has only one gate every 12 miles...
When it was announced, the book stirred a small literary tempest. In the New Yorker last November, Joan Didion argued at length that all writers, even those "less inclined than Hemingway to construe words as the manifest expression of personal honor," should have the only, and final, say on what among their work will appear in print. Oddly enough, after running Didion's vehement objections to the project, the New Yorker published an excerpt from True at First Light...
Pickford needs to be known to see how quickly and glamorously the movies exploded into feature-length life--and at last she can be. Milestone Films has just reissued spiffy video restorations of six of Pickford's best films, made between 1917 and 1927. Mary Pickford Rediscovered (Abrams; 256 pages; $39.95), an eloquent appreciation by silent-film historian Kevin Brownlow, joins a superb biography, Eileen Whitfield's Mary Pickford: The Woman Who Made the Movies (University Press of Kentucky; 416 pages; $25), in bringing the actress alive on the page. Many of the Brownlow book's photos--evocations...