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...been going down to the sea in yachts ever since he was a boy in Charleston, S.C. In 1908, after working up to be assistant paymaster on the New York Central Railroad, Stone changed his course abruptly. At 36, he took the helm of Yachting, which his friend Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, had started the year before. Editor Stone decided to make Yachting more popular by doing the same for yachting: he gave a big boost to ocean racing, revived the famed Bermuda Race...
Great Days. That afternoon the Columbine pushed on to Minot, N. Dak., and next morning Ike drove 70 miles out from Minot to the giant Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
...Garrison, Ike was taken on a tour of the dam site and shown a scale model of the project. One of his Army Engineers guides, General William Potter, remarked that perhaps such models should be sent around the country so the people could see what they were getting for their money. Half grinning, the President snorted: "Did you ever stop to think that if they find out, they may stop you some...
Robert Layzer's treatment of the decline of love in "Brownstone," this year's Garrison Prize Poem, is at times difficult, but his language merits extra effort. Unfortunately this is not always true of much of the magazine's other poetry...
...where it might be cut off, and sent soldiers to establish roadblocks on Cairo-to-Suez highways. Egyptian staff officers pored over studies of the 1951-52 fighting to make sure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes. The government restricted sales of supplies to the British garrison (Tommies feared for their three-bottles-a-day quota of Stella beer...