What else Blumenthal said (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/21/2010 05:04 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>I have no big ax to grind with Blumenthal.  I am prepared to accept
>that the Times may be exaggerating his misstatements.  I will
>probably vote for him if he's on the ballot.  But his defenders on
>this list seem to be going somewhat overboard.  For example, the
>article that Bill refers to below is clearly about an intramural
>team, not the Harvard swim team.
>
>Fred Shapiro

Thanks, Fred.  Surely more than Yale and Harvard alumni should
recognize that Kirkland is a Harvard House.

Joel

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Dan Goodman
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> > He's also reported to have said twice that he was captain of the
> > Harvard
> > swim team.  Which, according to reports, he was never a member of --
> > let
> > alone captain.
> >
> >
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>Another easy-to-find proof he was on the swim team:
>
>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/10/reverett-drowns-kirkland-tak
>es-house-swim/
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>Harvard Crimson, 3/10/1966
>
>"In the medley relay, John Wurster, Grant Hammond, Tony Obst, and Tom
>Pringle swam a 1:53.5, beating Kirkland by nearly a body-length. Walter
>Keats, Tom Pringle, Jeff Dundon and anchor Richard Blumenthal did a
>1:36.7--average splits of 24 plus--to win by over half the pool."
>
>And in fact it shows that he was the anchor of the relay team, which
>could have been conflated into "captain".
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