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...work on his own boat. A non-smoker (he gave up cigars 15 years ago) and a lifetime teetotaler, he has the wind to stay under water close to a minute at a time, as he lovingly swabs smooth the gleaming green hull of his International sloop Aileen before a race...
Like most devout sailors, Corny Shields has brought his children up on the water. The Aileen is named for his daughter, who won the national women's sailing championship in 1948. Son Corny Jr., 19 (nickname: Glick), is one of the top Long Island skippers in the speedy 110 Class boats. Mrs. Shields, in the older tradition of yachtsmen's wives, prefers the yacht club porch, seldom races with her husband, "because Corny won't let me do anything in the boat...
...miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., was brief and urgent. An epidemic of diphtheria had broken out in an Indian village on the Stoney River; 50-odd stricken natives needed help at once. From Whitehorse, Indian Affairs' Department Nurse Amy Wilson flew to Fort St. John; Nurse Aileen Bond started out from Dawson Creek, B.C. Last week the British Columbia Health Department released Nurse Bond's report on their three-week-long fight against the disease...
...AILEEN ST. JOHN BRENON...
Divorced. James M. Cain, 54, author, expert in themes of violence and lust (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade, Double Indemnity); by wife No. 3, Aileen Pringle Cain, 45, silent-film siren; after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...