Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...song says, a polo player without a pony is like a ship without a sail. The recently reactivated Crimson polo team, which has just completed a six-game first postwar season, is probably the only aggregation of its kind ever to do the job under borrowed canvas...
...Duffy, son of a Jersey City cop, was barred from a life class at the Art Students League in Manhattan because he was still in short pants. He went to work on the old New York Herald and the Evening Post as an illustrator and left, at 22, to sail for Europe with only $150 in his pocket. He studied art and sipped vermouth on an empty stomach in Paris, then came back home to the Eagle...
Paul Smart '14, Hilary's father, may team up with his son in the Sheepshead trials to form the two-man crew. If they get their fair share of breaks, which include position, wind, and not being pocketed by the ballooning sail of a rival, they have a working chance at the laurel...
...Spivak go 220 Yards under full sail? That will be one of the big questions which may be answered tomorrow. He did well indoors this winter and like the rest of the current crop of dashmen, he has been loafing through 23-second 220's this week...