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...only 19. He turned 18 last September and is still a freshman in college. Little wonder that Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, the first Negro elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, was startled when his oldest daughter Remi broke the news that she plans to marry Donald Hasler, a white student at New Jersey's Monmouth College. "Daddy said, 'Oh, you're so young,' " recalled Remi. But the Senator soon came around, and plans are set for a June wedding at the family's summer place on Martha's Vineyard. Donald's folks were...
...titillate the great storyteller's ghost. The wackiest ocean race of all time, it started in a cozy English club, the consequence of a five-bob (70?) wager between a balding ex-commando and a bespectacled manufacturer of pocket maps. The wager made, War Hero H. G. ("Blondie") Hasler and Mapmaker Francis Chichester approached the prestigious Royal Western Yacht Club for official sanction. Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies -one lone man to a boat...
Recorders & Cummerbunds. By the June n starting date, the field had dwindled to five: Favorites Hasler and ChiChester, a black-bearded Welsh farmer, and a London doctor, who had equipped his boat with a portable dictating machine so that he could record his own "hallucinations." A confident Frenchman, author of a book called The Atlantic for Me, started five days late, sailed gaily off into a pea-soup fog and has been sighted only briefly since...
Grimly serious, Hasler predicted victory, based his hopes on Jester, a radically designed, 25-ft. gin. boat that carried no rigging-only a single, easy-to-handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean...
...Sleep Tite (the Pa jama for Men of Bedroom Discrimination) is booming. The trouble is that the union is demanding a 7½-cents-an-hour raise, and pulling a' slowdown to get it. Sid's problem is complicated by the fact that his boss, Mr. Hasler, is determined not to knuckle under to the union, while Sid's girl, redheaded Babe Williams, is one of the union ringleaders...