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Robert Henry Kefford III was known to his friends as Bob. He was sorry to be leaving

Cambridge. He had spent three glorious years at St. John’s, and   2 ___________ he hadn’t read as many books as he had done for his

undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, he had tried hard to come in

head to the river. It wasn’t unusual for an American to win a rowing

competition in the early 1970s, but he 3 _________ to win a victorious Cambridge eight for three years in a row. 4 ___________ Britons

had done it.

Bob’s father, Robert Henry Kefford II, known to his friends

as Robert, had travelled over to England to watch his son take part in all

three races from Putney to Mortlake.

After Bob had stroked Cambridge to victory for the third time, his father 5 _________ him that he must not return to his native Illinois without having

presented a memento to the University Boat Club that they would remember him

by.

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