Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Island Sound and went on to become a legendary figure, a man who may well have sailed-and won-more races than anyone in the sport's history. Corny Shields spoke of the jib ("Don't trim it flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew ("Don't have a light-hearted comedian as a member of a serious racing crew"). He even talked about the weather ("Squalls from the northwest blow longest and hardest...
...race, Shields was beached from competition by his doctors. Yet last summer he stubbornly took the tiller of the 12-meter Columbia and, under tremendous pressure, skippered her at the start of light races in the final trials that led to her successful defense of the America's Cup with his old friend and onetime rival, Briggs Cunningham, at the helm...
...Australia. But last week, in the 1959 championships, the two big powers took back seats to and got one very rude shock from a pair of Latin nations, where tennis is still a relatively new and undeveloped sport. In the men's division, Alex Olmedo, who plays Davis Cup tennis for the U.S. but comes from Peru, which lists but 3,000 tennis players, was the class of the field. And in the women's division, a slender, poker-faced school marm named Maria Bueno brought Brazil its first big international championship...
...stiffens under pressure, and at Wimbledon the going was tough enough to challenge his mastery. Ranged against him were Australia's nimble Rod Laver, 20, and dark-haired Roy Emerson, 22, and America's moody, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Barry MacKay. 23, Olmedo's Davis Cup teammate against Australia last winter. MacKay did not get beyond the semifinals, wilting before Laver's dogged retrieving, and that left Wimbledon to Olmedo and the two Aussies...
...Hoist a cup o' sack to the Connecticut Stratfordians! With their new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, which had its official opening yesterday afternoon, co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have put the American Shakespeare Festival back into high gear...