Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Hourglass. Four times before, Cox had reached the North American finals-and lost each time. "It gets under your skin," he said. Now it looked like it might stay there. Early in the sixth race, he seemed hopelessly behind McNamara. But a wind shift caught McNamara unawares and then, rounding the first mark, the Bostonian and his two-man crew somehow committed the neophyte's gaffe of letting their spinnaker whip into an hourglass snarl. They took 1 min. 30 sec. to unfoul it, and limped in seventh to Cox's sixth. That put Cox only...
McNamara's fifth. At last, Cox had the lead...
...championship on Long Island Sound were Shields class,* stock 30-ft. fiber glass sloops that sell for $8,000 each and are as alike as a school of anchovies. After the first two days, Boston's John J. ("Don") McNamara, 34, and Darien, Conn.'s William Cox, 53, were so far over the horizon that no one could catch them. McNamara, a bronze medal winner in the 5.5-meter class at the 1964 Olympics, was ahead with 371 points (1, 1, 3, 2, 1). Barely 2½ points behind (2,2,2,1,3) was Cox...
Divorced. Wally Cox, 41, TV's Mr. Peepers; by Milagros Fink Cox, 25, his second wife; after three years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Nothing now prevents the sisters from burying Billy. Since Surrogate Cox's decision, the executors have taken the position that the sisters have a free hand to spend a "reasonable" sum on the burial. But the sisters seem preoccupied with their legal battle to break Billy's will, specifically the part that left the bulk of the estate-made up largely of A.T. & T. stock and assorted real estate-to the Billy Rose Foundation, which he set up in 1958 for "nonprofit and exclusively religious, charitable or educational purposes...