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...undergraduate Olympic hopefuls will enter his semi-final try-outs next Saturday at Marblehead for the Monotype or Finn Class selection on the U.S. Sailing team. Tommy Townsend, a former Marblehead 110 champion, will face a field of 12 in Fireflies with the winner earning the right to represent the NEISA in the Olympic finals at Marion, Mass., on June 12-17. Strong winds this weekend could eliminate Townsend early in the competition, however, since he is extremely light (150 lbs.) for this class. The Melbourne Olympic yachting games will be held next November on Port Philip...
...aide-decamp, lived in the old Brattle mansion, where everyone seems to have dropped in for tea, including generals, Indians, and John Adams, who stopped in just before signing the Declaration of Independence. The John Vassall, Jr. home at one point contained a whole company of Glover's Marblehead militia. This motley crew, however, was turned out in favor of General Washington, who had found it uncomfortable with the President of Harvard. General George found it even more uncomfortable at the Vassall's, for the evicted Marbleheaders proved no end of trouble. Not only did they protest violently, but even...
Hildy was born in a Boston hospital in 1951 to Marjorie McCoy, a pretty, 21-year-old nursing student from Marblehead, Mass. Ten days after birth, she was taken by a childless Jewish couple, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ellis of Brookline, Mass., who paid Marjorie's doctor and hospital bills and gave her $150 for incidental expenses. According to the doctor who arranged the adoption, Marjorie McCoy was told that the Ellises were Jewish...
...pair of games with a favored Yale squad; Ken Rossano and Andy Ward pitched the Crimson to a 4-2 win at New Haven, but the Elis came back to win, 6 to 5, in Cambridge. After the game, catcher George L. MacDonald, Jr. '55 of Eliot House and Marblehead, was elected captain for next spring...
Little was born in Marblehead, Mass., on July 27. 1896. He entered the Coolege...