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...only boat that seems to stand a chance of plucking Eagle's tail feathers is Constellation, the other new twelve-meter. Under the command of Eric Ridder, Constellation lost her first three races against Eagle. But last week Relief Helmsman Bob Bavier, 46, a veteran blue-water sailor, took over, and Constellation led Eagle around the first two marks when the race was called on account of fog. On the strength of that performance, the Eagle eye is sure to be on Constellation in next month's final trials. But most of the experts are still giving...
Manhattan Real Estate Man Walter S. Gubelmann, Commodore Harold Vanderbilt, Briggs Cunningham and 28 top-notch yachtsmen. Skipper: Eric Ridder, 45, who has raced to more than a dozen ocean victories as captain of Gubel-mann's famed yawl Windigo and has chosen a crew seasoned with Windigo sailors. They have already been training for six weeks on an old twelve rebuilt to match Constellation's deck layout...
Laissez Faire. Herman Ridder was less interested in earning a niche in journalism's record book than in providing newspapers for the profit of his male descendants. Today, there are 21 Ridders to work the chain, a figure that neatly corresponds with the number of Ridder newspapers. The papers vary in size from the Aberdeen, S. Dak., American-News (circ. 21,000) to the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (227,000 combined). But they all have one thing in common: a Herman Ridder heir at the helm...
...Ridder in San Jose is Grandson Joseph B., 44, who went West after the acquisition, applied the laissez-faire Ridder formula, and still cannot quite believe in his luck. Like all Ridder newspapers, Joseph's pair are run as if the others did not exist. The last San Jose newspaper crusade petered out ten years ago, after the city built the new civic center that its two dailies had plumped for. By then the boom was well under way, and about all Grandson Joseph had to do was let it boom...
Publisher Joe Ridder finds San Jose's growth enormously stimulating. "I've done everything to get the population here, and new industry too," he said last week, happily reflecting on the boom. As a journalist, he also feels challenged. What is his greatest problem? Joe Ridder knows the answer to that one. "Increase circulation," he says...