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...have tried 16 times, the Canadians twice, the Australians once-all have failed. Hope still springs, as long as somebody springs for the price (upwards of $300,000) of a sleek 12-meter yacht. Next September Australia will go again. After trial races in Sydney last week, Top Skipper Jock Sturrock, 51, was eager to boast that "we've got a boat that can win the America...
Hardin looks very much like Walt Hewlett -- the Crimson harrier sensation whose records Hardin is now shattering. Looking at him, you'd never guess he was a jock. He is slight, bespectacled, and looks a little undernourished. His clothes hang on him. He can't quite fill them...
Hardin has a tough time adjusting to life as a famous jock. "It just occurred to me that in an ordinary year I'd be sent to the Nationals (He can't this year because Harvard and the NCAA aren't on the best of terms.) I just ran and was satisfied. Hey, I got a course record. Hey, I'm good. Look at that. I mean it just occurred...
Conniff himself will edit the editorial page. "We will have editorial writers from all three papers, and if anything goes sour, I'm to blame." Under an unusual arrangement, any of the three publishers-Bill Hearst, Jack Howard, Jock Whitney-will be given space to reply if they disagree with an editorial. "It should make for a pretty lively page," says Conniff. Leslie Gould from the Journal-American will boss the financial page; Maurice Dolbier from the Trib and John Barkham from the Saturday Review will review books; the Trib's Walter Terry, dance; John Gruen and Emily...
...week-old strike, the denials sounded thinner. The publishers knew all too well how quickly the public gets out of the habit of reading a newspaper that is not available, and how hard it is to woo them back. It was one thing for a lone and idealistic publisher, Jock Whitney, to keep the Trib going despite its losses. A corporation of which he owned only a third could not be expected to be so kindhearted...