Welland Pirates

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    Master of Trinity: Is he an Italian?
    Harold Abrahams: Of Italian extraction, yes.
    Master of Trinity: I see.
    Harold Abrahams: But not all Italian.
    Master of Trinity: I’m relieved to hear it.
    Harold Abrahams: He’s half-Arab.
    —Colin Welland (b. 1934)

    Power first, or no leading class. In politics and trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)