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...good time-and that's a yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan with a sharp prow and filled-out afterbody, became the prototype of modern racers. *And the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his New York Herald Tribune coverage...
...never executed. He pondered long and often on his special afflictions, melancholy and gout, and showed positive enthusiasm on the subject of death. "Our friend Dr. Chapman," he informed a correspondent briskly, "is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five mackerel...in his belly. He eat them all at one dinner...They say he made a very good...
...typical chapter is Miss Carson's biography of the surface waters. Here is the snake-mackerel, up from the depths, first seen in living form by the Kon-Tiki expedition; here the uncountable creatures called plankton, a community of minute animals and plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which...
...Mackerel. Hartman first began giving awards in 1928 when he gave the best-dressed women award to women in public life, theater, radio, movies, etc. From the "best-dressed," it was a short jump to the gold medal. In 1934 Cinemogul Walter Wanger won the first one for his "fashion-consciousness" in making pictures. From then on, Hartman gave them at the rate of about one a year, but after World War II he started handing out medals the way the Army distributes the Bronze Star...
Hartman picks the company to be honored himself, with an assist from his Academy staff. He does not empanel a formal jury to cover all industry, or even see every product in a single field. "We don't lay the products out side by side like mackerel," says he. "We don't have to." Hartman says he knows a good design when he sees one, makes his selection from what he sees...