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...destined for the Navy. Son of a Brooklyn real estate man, Anderson developed a childhood love of the sea while running an outboard motorboat in the waters off Long Island's South Shore. A bright kid, he zipped through a Jesuit high in fast time, graduated at 16. When he heard that Manhattan Congressman Ogden Mills had a couple of Naval Academy billets at his disposal, Anderson wrote a persuasive letter requesting an appointment. Mills, who did not represent Anderson's district, wired back: Establish residence in Manhattan and the appointment is yours. Anderson did so, entered...
Broad and muscular (5 ft. 8½ in., 175 Ibs.), Muncey started racing outboard motorboats at 14, first drove a limited hydroplane in 1947, when he broke in on smaller boats with 65 m.p.h. top speed. Eight years later, Designer Ted Jones, whose Slo-Mo-Shun IV revolutionized hydro design in 1950, gave Muncey his first crack at the really big boats by picking him to drive the first of Owner Rhodes's Miss Thriftway hydros. Muncey barely missed winning the Gold Cup his first time out, then came on to win in both...
...Marathon, the last three Miami-Nassau powerboat races), Bertram was shooting for a new Marathon record of 5 hr. 45 min. when one of his twin 310-h.p. MerCruiser outdrive engines failed halfway around. Eventual winner in the handicap race: August Nigel's 17-ft. outboard-powered runabout, at an average speed of 33 m.p.h. for the trip...
...consumer hesitancy, New York's J. Carvel Lange, a specialist in forecasting consumer and financial trends, believes that sales of consumer goods "have been only marginally affected by the decline in the stock market." People not only continue to buy staples, but also such lower-priced luxuries as outboard motors and golf clubs. In fact, says Lange, for the past two months consumers have been buying goods faster than merchants have been replacing their stocks-which means that the economy may shortly benefit from an increase in merchants' orders to manufacturers. Nonetheless, as Vice President Tilford Gaines...
Seemingly headed for an off-screen Oscar for her supporting role in a deep-water drama was Jayne Mansfield, 28. Water-skiing from a chartered outboard off Nassau, the busty cinemorsel, her muscleman husband Mickey ("Mr. Universe of 1956") Hargitay and a friendly publicist suddenly turned up missing-a calamity that evoked outsize headlines all across the U.S. plus a massive. Coast Guard-led search. Rescued after a night on a lonely islet, the castaways explained that Jayne had frenziedly overturned their boat after the party spotted sharks (in waters in which the Nassau Yacht Club hadn't seen...