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That Indefinable Something. Herter's election last fall was in itself something of a political miracle. The man he defeated was, politically, as symbolic of life in Massachusetts as the baked bean, the sacred cod and the Bunker Hill Monument. Portly Democrat Paul Dever, a seasoned performer and a spellbinder among the masses, who had croaked his way to national TV fame as keynoter at the Democratic Convention last summer, had looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that...
...board and have a good time-and that's a yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan with a sharp prow and filled-out afterbody, became the prototype of modern racers. *And the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his New York Herald Tribune...
...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, became engaged to sultry Socialite Jacqueline Bouvier, 23, onetime Washington Times-Herald Inquiring Photographer. Two days later, caught in a Manhattan traffic jam, Jacqueline kept Jack waiting until the last nervous second before they took off for a Cape Cod weekend. Said the nonchalant young Senator to reporters: "This is the first of many, I guess, as you married men must know...
...radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape Cod...
...Wednesday and Thursday of last week, the CRIMSON ran an ad offering a position to a married couple as stewards at a yacht club on Cape Cod for the summer. Because the position seemed inviting and because I thought my husband and I were capable of filling it, I called the number listed in the advertisement to ask for an interview...