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Between England's mainland and the Isle of Wight stretches a yachtsman's nightmare. Cowes Road abounds in treacherous currents, hidden reefs and fickle winds. There, last week, three American and three British six-meter racing yachts caught the breeze in the race for the British-American Cup, a junior-sized edition of the America's Cup (won last in 1937 when the U.S.'s sloop Ranger handily beat England's Endeavour II in four straight races...
...concluded that British-American relations should be improved by understanding, not lecturing and nagging...
Harvard, Yale, and Columbia each received $1,538,685. The Commonwealth Fund, a Harkness family philanthropic organization devoted to medical education and British-American student exchange, received...
...Sunday Times's excited conclusion that Crusade in Europe is "a blow ... at British-American friendship" came a soft-gloved slap by Lord Ismay, who was Winston Churchill's chief of staff. In London's Daily Telegraph Lord Ismay wrote: "Those who were privileged to serve with Eisenhower or under him, will remember him for all time as a grand fighter, a great American, and a sincere, generous-hearted friend of Great Britain. On this there can be no argument...
Last week, Sir Oliver expressed a philosophy of a moderately hopeful sort in a New York speech before the Pilgrims, an old, famed Anglo-American friendship society. Said Sir Oliver of British-American relations...