Word: helm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harlow was succeeded in 1948 by Art Valpey, whose squads split their two meetings with Brown. In 1950, Lloyd Jordan came to the helm, and he proved to be the least successful of any of his predecessors...
...pension and was leaving for Britain, as "it might be too embarrassing for him to stay here." Why had he fired Mirza? "Somehow or other, people felt that he was as much responsible for the political deterioration as anyone else." Besides, the armed farces wanted "a man at the helm that people have complete faith...
...unsettled backfield plagues Lowell House now, but, with Coach Dusty Burke '52 at the helm, the Bellboys hope to field a strong team on Thursday. Their experienced line features Ron Coralian at guard. Back Dick Kazuma and Joe Herlihy lead the team as co-captains...
Again it was sheer murder. Columbia, with weatherbeaten Briggs Cunningham at the helm, raced to a 600-yard lead on the first six-mile windward leg of the 24-mile course. Cunningham increased the advantage with brilliant sailing both into the wind and with colorful spinnaker runs...
Columbia won her deciding race without the help of canny Corny Shields, the 63-year-old grey fox of Long Island Sound, who quit his advisory role to whip her crew into shape and to take the helm himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual...