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...other hand, Scullay, perhaps the best all-around sailor on the Crimson team, is new to dinghy competition. A past champion in the bigger One-Ten sailboat class, Scullay adapted himself to the dinghy a year ago last fall and he captured the freshman intercollegiate championship...
...widower with three children, Percy likes to race his sailboat on Lake Michigan, take home movies, and play golf. He is also working towards a law degree at night school ("a businessman can't safely make a move today without consulting a lawyer"), as part of the job of keeping Bell & Howell growing. Says Percy: "No company can stand still. We set our sights always a little ahead of what we think we can reach...
...please himself, Hopkinson does watercolors between portrait commissions. Last week Boston's Margaret Brown Gallery was exhibiting the landscapes he painted on a trip to New Zealand last year. The work of a lifelong sailor, his watercolors are sometimes as taut with motion as a sailboat in a stiff breeze...
...Stronger than steel, withstood shell fragments as successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
Perhaps all this pessimism has some connection with the fact that on the day this reporter last spoke to the coach, they had just returned from the speetacle of seeing an adroit Freshman coxswain pilot a load of 150's into a passing sailboat. Somehow, the coaches seemed a bit tired of it all. The Varsity Schedule April 24 Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers at Princeton May 1 Cornell here May 8 Pennsylvania and Navy at Philadelphia May 15 Eastern Intercollegiate Sprint Regatta here June 25 Yale at New London