Word: gretel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest to get aboard was Gretel, the Australian challenger, but Sir Frank Packer finally relented. Her Aussie crew told Lamont that he was the first newsman ever allowed to sail on her, and the cruise Lamont took, in pelting rain and a 25-knot wind, had another distinction: it was the roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet...
MacNamara is co-skipper of the Nefertiti, one of four American boats vying to represent the United States against the Australian challenger, Gretel. Mrs. Anderson is the wife of Commodore Anderson, the owner of the Nefertiti...
...final trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup, the U.S. 12-meters took turns showing their sterns to one another in the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise. Six races were evenly divided, Nefertiti, Weatherly and Easterner each winning twice. Gretel, Sir Frank Packer's Australian challenger, suffered a minor but quickly repaired embarrassment when she snapped her boom on the first...
...know those cute little German barometers which tell you what the weather's like by popping either Hansel and Gretel or the Old Witch out at you? Well, that,s the way the staging was originally conceived for this production of ALL THE KING'S MEN. On opening night all the little scenes shot out of the back of the stage at precarious speeds, while the sets swayed and teatered precariously. But since then, the sets have been revised and simplified. By Saturday, the production was fairly smooth, though one still wonders why Mr. George Hamlin, Armistead, the set designer...
...hand to watch it all were Sir Frank Packer's Australian spies, hovering around the fleet each day in their chartered motorboat. This month Gretel arrives to start her own trial series against Vim, her chartered workhorse, and the Aussies could be sure that Hood, Mosbacher & Co. would be around to observe...