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...ready last week for her voyage to the U.S.-as deck cargo aboard the freighter City of Sydney. For two months, Gretel (pronounced Great-ul) had been testing herself against her American trial horse, Vim, and stories about her speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic margin. "We don't know what to believe," says veteran U.S. Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, adviser to the Columbia crew that easily defeated Britain...
...others: Mrs. John Sherman Cooper (Ky.); Mrs. William Proxmire (Wis.); Mrs. Gale McGee (Wyo.); Mrs. Wallace F. Bennett (Utah); Mrs. Prescott Bush (Conn.): Mrs. John Williams...
Died. John Gale Alden, 78, ruddy Yankee yachtsman and sailboat designer who put ocean racing within reach of the only moderately rich with his Malabar class of small rugged schooners derived from Gloucester fishing smacks, proved the soundness of his designs by becoming the first man to win three Bermuda regattas, and set more of his hulls afloat than any other U.S. marine architect; of a stroke; near Orlando...
...patches together an opulent tapestry of medieval legend. In its final moment, the film rises to a vision of chilling weirdness as El Cid. strapped dead to his great white steed Babieca, looms above the field of his last dim battle and, scattering the heathen like smoke before the gale of destiny, rides thundering into Aceldama and the ages...
Where once pastel mansions had gilded green canyons, a snaggle-toothed rubble of chimneys now disfigured the Mecca of conspicuous consumption. Raging through the Los Angeles suburbs of Bel Air and Brentwood, a gale-whipped brush fire-the worst in Southern California's history -had sent up in Argenta-mink smoke 447 homes (bottom price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster...