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...when they vote, a bit more internationally minded. Their response to charisma is apparently overrated. Younger women may jump and squeal, older women may gush over a candidate like John Lindsay; but once they go to vote, they are less susceptible to their emotions. It was not the glamorous ex-PT boat commander, John F. Kennedy, who won the bulk of the women's vote in 1960. More than 50% of women preferred Richard Nixon. "You didn't find the anti-Nixon attitudes among women," says Warren Miller, director of the Center for Political Studies at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Toward Female Power at the Polls | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...ex-PT boat captain, Jim Queeny, who turned in the fastest time in the novice singles trials last week, lowered it by three and a half seconds to win his class title in 3:28.5 over John Brewer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oarsmen Pull Summer's Last Mile | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

During the novice singles eliminations Wednesday, an ex-PT boat skipper, Jim Queeny, piloted his craft to the most impressive victory of the day and made himself the favorite for the final with a 3:32 clocking in the first heat. John Brewer, who trailed Queeny, also qualified, since there were only two heats. The winner of the other trial, John Bisbee, and his runner-up, L. W. Barroll, round out the novice singles finalists...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Sculling Trialists Bested by Excursion Boat and Bridge | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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