Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notch Crimson crew will try to make it seven wins in seven tries, as Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann, and Dave Stookey defend the Schell trophy on the Charles this weekend...
...exciting prospect, but the New York Yacht Club was in no mood to rush into another defense so soon. Preparing for a cup match is an expensive and exhausting proposition. The owners of the four U.S. boats competing for the right to defend against the Aussies this year spent something like $1,000,000 among them. The U.S. crews are almost all amateurs who beg or borrow time off from their jobs and businesses to compete; Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to victory, cannot afford any more time away from his family oil business. Firmly, but politely, the New York...
Saving Outcasts. When graft scandals broke in San Francisco in 1907, Rogers won national fame. He agreed to defend two top executives of a local streetcar company, accused of bribing city officials. Rogers' opponent in the case was the fiery Francis J. Heney, a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the course of a tumultuous trial, someone shot at Rogers, barely missing. Someone else shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney...
Four years later, when Clarence Darrow was accused of bribing a juror, it was Rogers he asked to defend him. Even Rogers' enemies conceded that his defense was brilliant. Adela pictures Darrow sitting morosely in court, Rogers doing his best to pep him up. Long before the trial was over, writes Adela, Darrow was assured of acquittal; but he almost convicted himself by making a two-day speech to the jury. Darrow wept so much that his sleeves looked as if they had been "plunged into a rain barrel." Obviously piqued that Darrow's reputation outshines daddy...
...sailors will defend the Leonard M. Fowle trophy against M.I.T., second-place finisher in the New London trials, and against the top qualifiers in the "B" elimination, Coast Guard and Boston University...