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...says he. But inches are as vital to a racing hull as to a fashion model. Columbia's bow sweeps gracefully into a full-bodied hull-a shape that helps her go swiftly to windward against a running sea. Stephens' calculations show that Columbia should do her best in the heavy weather that often blows off Newport in late September...
Like Columbia, Sceptre was financed by a syndicate, eleven members of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. She was also designed for heavy weather. In trial runs, Sceptre looked her best when fighting to windward in a running sea. Free to move fast and safely in her yawning cockpit, her crewmen could put their stabilizing weight where it was needed. But some British experts were grumbling that Scottish Designer David Boyd, 55, had made Sceptre too rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared...
Just as rugged as Sceptre is her crew of ten regulars and seven alternates, hand-picked from among Britain's best sailors after spring tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master...
...winnowed from 1,000 applicants) were hampered by shaky Italian diction and an occasional tendency to overact from sheer youthful exuberance (Painter Marcello, in Act I, hurled his brush clear offstage into the orchestra pit). But audience and critics were impressed by the Americans' voices and technique. The best voice in the group, many thought, belonged to Tacoma (Wash.) Baritone Roald Reitan, who sang briefly last year with the San Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous round...
...Lomax, now 43, has been tracking down such leads, fitting together musical jigsaw pieces of many a puzzle about the family of man. He has collaborated with leading folklorists the world over, listened to miles of music already on tape, added taped material of his own and edited the best into comprehensible form. Columbia so far has issued 16 remarkable annotated albums (covering almost as many areas) in a projected 30-to 40-album series, and Westminster this month releases the sixth of a scheduled eleven albums of Lomax material from Spain alone...