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Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Morning Bytes column: how maiden story sank at the pier.(Column)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- May 11, 2007
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Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick
May 11--It's Dad Vail Regatta weekend.
The springtime Schuylkill boatfest is one of the country's most visually pleasing events.
And yet I can't bear to watch. The memory it dredges up is still too painful.
It was the spring of 1971, and I was a Temple journalism student interning at the Evening Bulletin.
A crusty but kindhearted editor -- perhaps as a reward for all the coffee, cigarettes and fried-egg sandwiches I'd fetched him -- assigned me a story.
"The Dad Vail Regatta's coming up," he growled. "Go interview Temple's rowing coach. He's a hell of an interesting guy."