Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jinx. They were chosen for their excellence and they continue to display the qualities that put them on the cover. Latest on that long list is Yachtsman Bus Mosbacher, who appeared on the Aug. 18 cover. After Bus sailed Intrepid to four straight victories over Australia's challenger Dame Pattie, we learned that his crew had hung copies of the cover portrait belowdecks. With proper nautical aplomb, they sailed right into the face of the cover-jinx myth...
...probably kill any of my children before I'd let them do such a thing." His reaction was echoed by a respectable businessman lunching at the Westmoreland Country Club in Glenview, Ill.: "If I were Rusk, I'd be inclined to shoot the guy." A grande dame at the Orlando Country Club in Florida gloated: "It will serve the old goat right to have nigger grandbabies...
...third America's Cup race was over, and Jock Sturrock, helmsman of Australia's Dame Pattie, sat in Newport's Thames Street Armory answering reporters' questions. What, specifically, was the challenger's main problem? Sighed Sturrock: "The hull." Why hadn't Jock tried to backwind the U.S.'s Intrepid at the start? "On the performance of the two boats, I don't think it would have made very much difference." What was his overall impression of Pattie? "Theoretically, she was designed for winds of twelve to 14 knots, but I would...
Thus the Aussie skipper could only say that if there had been practically no wind at all at Newport, R.I., last week, Dame Pattie might have been competition for Bus Mosbacher and the U.S. defender, Intrepid. As it was, the winds ranged from seven to 22 knots, and Pattie lost three straight races by wide margins. On not one single point of sailing did the Australian 12-meter yacht prove superior...
...capsized directly in the path of the onrushing Intrepid. Mosbacher had to veer off sharply; in the process, Intrepid caught a blast of air from a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that wrapped her mainsail around the backstay, cost her more than 30 sec. of racing time. She still beat Dame Pattie to the first mark...