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Son of a physican, Mitchell began sailing at the age of eight on Lake Pontchartrain outside his home town of New Orleans and grew up with a tiller in his hand. After a restless year at Ohio's Miami University, Mitchell went to New York, served a hitch as...
The race was a six-day nightmare of groping through fog, hunting for the flicker of a breeze, and battling howling gales of 60 knots that heeled over the big ocean racers, ripped sails, snapped rudders, and forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul...
In the summer of 1956, two young graduates of Dallas' Highland Park High School embarked on the most rigorous ordeal of their young lives: the plebe year at the U.S. service academies. Annapolis Midshipman Alton K. Thompson and West Point Cadet Charles Paddock Otstott (who had spent a year...
Skipper Beach (Annapolis '39) is the son of the late Captain Edward Beach, who commanded the battleship New York in 1918-19 and who wrote Navy stories for children. Ned Beach won the Navy Cross, Silver Stars and a chestful of other medals as a World War II submariner...
Annapolis, Md.