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Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr., 45, is not the sort of fellow anybody would invite into a friendly poker game. Behind that genial grin are the instincts of a tiger shark. In last week's America's Cup observation trials off Newport, R.I., Bus once more demonstrated why he is rated the slickest blue-water sailor in the world. At the helm of Intrepid, he ran off a string of five straight victories, including a 3-min. 46-sec. trouncing of Pat Dougan's refurbished Columbia - the boat that was expected to give Intrepid its stiffest battle...
This time at Newport, the crucial moment (see diagram) came 2 min. before the starting cannon, when Cunningham, after crossing the line early, swung Columbia around to get back onside. Instantly, Mosbacher spun Intrepid's wheel; his foredeck crew ran up a jib to windward-and in a flash Intrepid cut inside Columbia to gain the right of way. When Mosbacher jibed and crossed the starting line, Columbia was hopelessly backwinded and 40 sec. behind...
What strikes you first is the lack of activity. The Summer News, a twice-weekly newspaper which the university pays the CRIMSON to publish, is filled with reviews, speech stories, features on the Newport Folk Festival, articles about Congressional hearings, the draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves iemonade on the lawn every Wednesday day afternoon and maintains a "social and information...
Another member of our Washington bureau made news himself last week. On the Cal 40 sloop, Lancetilla II, owned and skippered by him, Economics Correspondent Juan Cameron won the Annapolis-Newport regatta, which this year proved to be one of the roughest in memory. Among Cameron's crew were John Wilhelm, also of the Washington bureau, Norris Brock, a TIME-LIFE Broadcast cameraman, Carter Brown, assistant director of the National Gallery, and Robert Amory, former deputy director of the CIA. Gales of up to 55 miles closed in about a day out, and from the time they left Chesapeake...
...universal conscription were far from "gentlemen scholars." William H. Meeker, who had been the President of the CRIMSON during that year, died the following September, 1917, at Pau, France. Like many who were absent at graduation, the Class Poet William Wilcox '17, mailed in his poem from the Newport News aviation camp. There was no Ivy Oration; the Orator, Henry Wentworth, was away in training camp...