Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Packed into a two-hour closed-circuit preview of the new season were all of NBC's top stars, presenting snippets from all of the network's evening programs. The audience: station personnel, admen and newsmen in 140 U.S. cities. Madison Avenue time buyers, the cold-eyed crew whom Bob Hope greeted as "the grey flannel Mafia," seemed satisfied at show's end that their share of the country's picture tubes might be worth the price...
...superb: her losses mostly had to be marked off to crew mistakes, and her victories largely came from her built-in speed. Sleek and sturdy, white-hulled Columbia was clearly the fastest boat throughout the elimination trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup. Last week she won two of three races from 19-year-old Vim, her final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular...
Columbia won her deciding race without the help of canny Corny Shields, the 63-year-old grey fox of Long Island Sound, who quit his advisory role to whip her crew into shape and to take the helm himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual...
Stephens was 22 when he took a vacation from his drawing board and, with his father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...
...stayed politely apart by themselves. Their working day stretched from 7:30 in the morning until 5:30 at night. With such determination, the ten-man British crew at Newport last week groomed Sceptre to challenge the U.S.'s Columbia for the 107-year-old America...