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Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of the New York Athletic Club one evening last week was as studied and serious as a premission meeting of wartime PT-boat skippers...
...Herald Tribune, whose format was once the buttoned-up coat of Republican respectability, has changed it for something like a blazer, as part of its program for a lighter, brighter paper. In addition, the Trib has stopped trying to match the Times in comprehensive news coverage. Trib Publisher Helen Rogers Reid and her two sons, Editor Whitelaw ("Whitey"), 41, and Vice President Ogden ("Brownie"), 29, are banking on selection rather than mass ("More news in less time"), and the drawing power of probably the best collection of columnists of any U.S. paper (Walter Lippmann, Joe and Stewart Alsop, Roscoe Drummond...
...Trail Blazer. In Kansas City, Mo., cops had no trouble following the trail of Earl Dean Thompson, 32, who heaved a hammer through a plate-glass store window, rammed his auto into a parked car, veered off and jumped the curb, struck two trees, drove back onto the street, smashed into a corner stoplight...
...missing Hungerford, Barnes and Kew because "the rising currents were tricky . . . and I didn't want to take any risks." Then he flew back to the Herts & Essex Airplane Club and stepped out on to the tarmac, a splendid, grey-haired figure (6 ft. 2 in.) in blue blazer and the wings of the Royal Aero Club. "I feel absolutely marvelous, marvelous," he said, ticking off the bridges as if they were fallen Fokkers...
Fair Deal. In Muncie, Ind., David B. Blazer's will provided $15 for the minister, $10 for the church, $2 each for those who participated in his funeral, and $5 each for those who called on him before he died...