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...Gerald Stairs had just finished putting the first of his new class of schooners through her trial paces. The Acadia 42 (socalled because of her 42-ft. overall length), designed by Stairs and built wholly of native white oak, pine and spruce, worked up to eight knots in a brisk breeze. Said Stairs:"She's fast, staunch, sound-a darned good sea boat. I'd take her around the world tomorrow." Instead, he loaded her on a flatcar last week for delivery to a California buyer...
Despite the summer doldrums, a slump in good new pictures and the British tax scare (TIME, Sept. 22), some box offices were enjoying a brisk little boom on reissues...
That was about all that newsmen could pin down last week when John Deferrari, now a bony, brisk bachelor of 84, gave an amazed Boston Public Library more than $1,000,000 to set up a trust fund. For the presentation, he showed up in an uncomfortably new grey suit, the side pockets of which were fastened with safety pins as a protection against pickpockets. The library's board gratefully accepted his gift and agreed to his stipulation that income from the fund be used to build a John Deferrari wing containing his portrait...
When Hedda walks into this shabby maelstrom at 9:30 in the morning, she sets the tone of the day's activities with a brisk "Good morning, slaves," to her staff, sweeps into her office, climbs into more comfortable shoes, and settles down to the morning mail and the notes prepared by her legman, a University of North Carolina Phi Bete named David ("Spec") McClure...
...plight of the plan, and of Argentina, was summed up in a blunt letter written to Perón by slim, brisk Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired. As president of the Inter-American Construction Corp., Lord was hired by Perón last winter (TIME, Feb. 3) to draw blueprints for the plan's engineering projects. From his cluttered headquarters on Buenos Aires' Calle Uruguay, General Lord wrote...