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King-Size Kit Bag. Graham not only overestimated Jock Whitney's tolerance but underestimated, or overlooked, that unassuming man in Chicago, Marshall Field. By nature cautious. Field has been moving slowly since his father's retirement in 1950 turned him into a reluctant newspaper publisher. But he has been moving steadily. Under his command, the Sun-Times shifted from red ink to black...
...Almost a Sin." All this bespeaks the enduring Andover, which is run on nothing more complicated than the primitive idea of ordeal. But the ordeal is far different from the one old grads remember. Everyone still looks up to the "jock" or man with a major "A." But these days the jock has to be a lot more-an actor, a proctor, a Merit scholar. The balanced hero is in. The snob is out. "A million kids are dying to get into Andover," says one lower-middler in a falsetto voice. "A guy who just mopes his way through...
...Going into the week with a 3-to-1 edge, the U.S.'s brilliant Bus Mosbacher swiftly closed out the best 4-of-7 series. In the kind of breezy (10 to 17 knots) but not blowy day that Weatherly likes best, he beat Gretel's Jock Sturrock to the start, soon had a healthy lead and increased it with every mark of the 24-mile, windward-leeward course. The game Aussie skipper hounded Mosbacher like a hound after a fox (cracked one spectator: "Sturrock ought to know how to spell Weatherly by now; he's seen...
...gone down to defeat before superior U.S. boats and superior U.S. seamanship. Of 55 races, the challengers had won only five*-and the last boat to do it was Britain's Endeavour, 28 years ago. But last week, off Newport, R.I., Australia's Gretel and Skipper Jock Sturrock proved to be unawed by the statistics. In the first four races of the best-of-seven series, the Aussies lost three to the U.S. defender, Weatherly, and her quiet genius, Bus Mosbacher. But Gretel did win one, and in a way that led one Aussie to proclaim: "Australians everywhere...
Underdog from the outset, Jock Sturrock and his Aussie crew nevertheless made Weatherly work for her victory. Gretel was plagued for much of the summer with mechanical difficulties--she snapped her boom only a few days before the first race...