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...open water. And a great many latter-day skippers operate on the theory that what you can't see can't hurt you. "They'll pay $40,000 for a cruiser, but they won't bother to get a proper chart for 750," says a coastguardman. "So they come by here running wide open, music blaring-and cream up on one of the rocks. Last season, the score was between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Perils of the Surface | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...competition drew off professional work and left the amateurs a show to themselves, Amateur Verne Alkire walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were no closer to the Illinois prairies than ex-Coastguardman Garo Antreasian's carefully composed painting of a sordid street in Indianapolis' South Side, which took grand prize at the Old Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Art | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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