Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest to get aboard was Gretel, the Australian challenger, but Sir Frank Packer finally relented. Her Aussie crew told Lamont that he was the first newsman ever allowed to sail on her, and the cruise Lamont took, in pelting rain and a 25-knot wind, had another distinction: it was the roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet...
MacNamara is co-skipper of the Nefertiti, one of four American boats vying to represent the United States against the Australian challenger, Gretel. Mrs. Anderson is the wife of Commodore Anderson, the owner of the Nefertiti...
...pick a defender for the America's Cup, the U.S. 12-meters took turns showing their sterns to one another in the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise. Six races were evenly divided, Nefertiti, Weatherly and Easterner each winning twice. Gretel, Sir Frank Packer's Australian challenger, suffered a minor but quickly repaired embarrassment when she snapped her boom on the first...
...obviously well acquainted with the French touch--overcomes the problem of space, which could be acute if any of his fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige in Article 330, is a lithe-limbed and limber-tongued Australian who gives the part a cockney gusto which it lacks in the original, improving from time to time on Professor Barzun's stiffish translation and livening it up with sparks of "business" of which Courteline would have approved, I am sure. As Andre, the lover in Boubouroche, he is finesse personified, a sort...
...uncomfortable, and the acoustics are generally poor and sometimes challenged by a passing plane. It is a rare summer's night when more than 8,000 New Yorkers feel like making their way there, but for some artists, the crowds fill Lewisohn to its brim. Last week Australian Soprano Joan Sutherland made her stadium debut-and, despite the fact that the concert had to be postponed one night, she sang to the season's record house...