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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared to 56,800 for Columbia. While Columbia's bow knifes through waves at the waterline, Sceptre bashes them with her barrel chest. Even British Helmsman Graham Mann guardedly admitted: "If she has a bias, it's toward the heavy side...
...best sailors after spring tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master for the royal family, finished third in the 1956 Olympics 5.5-meter-class competition...
Says Helmsman Mann: "I think the boats are about even." If Sceptre becomes the first British boat to beat the U.S. since America first won the cup in 1851, he is prepared. As extra cargo, Sceptre's crew brought along a special box just big enough to hold the America...
...Spell. A tragedy of family life, sensitively interpreted by Director Daniel Mann and a talented cast: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine (TIME, June...
...Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who insists on being called a "scenarist" rather than a "scenario writer"; a piano-playing gentleman with hallucinosis (Justice Watson); a celebrated attorney (Stanford McAuley); and an ex-larcenous butler (Howard Mann...