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...leeward. She broke out a new one quickly, rounded General Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht Winchester, used for the halfway mark in the absence of a buoy, five minutes ahead of Endeavour. She matched every effort the challenger made in a tacking duel on the beat home and crossed the line almost a mile ahead, needing only one more victory to decide the series...
...Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged Mussolini to a duel. Last week H. R. H. cooled his heels in respectful silence while Il Duce opened the discussion. Though the session was secret, leaks indicated that the Dictator, who had never before summoned all the King's generals, wanted to know if they had any objection to still further reducing...
...full minute behind. She had first hoisted a double-clew jib, then changed to a Genoa just before the start. On the 15-mile beat that started the 30-mile windward and leeward course, Rainbow tacked first, crossed Endeavour's bow, held her advantage in a tacking duel as they neared the turning buoy, rounded it almost three minutes ahead. Coming back before the wind, both boats broke out parachute spinnakers, took them in when the breeze, scarcely enough to ripple the surface of the groundswell, backed up to the north. Time limit for America's Cup races...
...best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...spider watched and waited. On the third day came more neighbors, newshawks, cameramen. The contest was making national news. The snake, called Egbert by his backers, grew weak, stopped writhing. On the fourth day the snake recovered its strength, sought once more to free itself. How long the duel might have gone on no one could say, for that night an agent from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals went into the cellar, snipped off Egbert's head with a pair of dull scissors...