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...Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron. At the finish line, aboard her royal yacht, Queen Victoria herself waited to present the "100 Guineas...
...become the new president of the association, the lawyers last week inaugurated Sylvester C. Smith Jr., a onetime "country lawyer" in New Jersey who is now general counsel of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America. A robust deep-water sailor (he races a 43-ft. auxiliary sloop), Smith is the first corporate counsel ever to serve as A.B.A. president, as well as the oldest ever chosen; he will be 68 this month. Biggest item on Smith's agenda for 1963: an international conference-to be held probably in India-aimed at the A.B.A.'s goal, "World Peace Through...
...Cleveland is still a major league mark) and flirted with bankruptcy. A confessed "publicity hound" who for years stumped around on a wooden peg (he lost his right leg as the result of a World War II inju ry), he spent money like a drunken sailor on sparkling Burgundy (he calls it "bubble ink") for himself, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, blaring bands and tightrope walkers for his wide-eyed fans...
...Many Ifs. In winning, Mosbacher showed the kind of daring that would be foolhardy in another sailor. At one point he drove Weatherly through an opponent's windless lee in a maneuver about as difficult, wrote one reporter, "as driving a golf ball through a wall." But sailors have come to expect that of blocky Bus Mosbacher. A master strategist, famed for his starts, Mosbacher likes to think of himself as a quarterback, figuring the odds against every gamble. "A sailing race," he says, "is like a football game: the quarterback must watch everything-not just...
...back again. It was frightfully sad. At the bottom of one's heart, one could not help feeling that it was not for the good of the country." Like the Wandering Jew. The royal exiles were warmly welcomed in republican France, but Don Juan still yearned for the sailor's life. His father wrote Britain's George V, asking that the lad be allowed to continue his training in the Royal Navy. Don Juan became a cadet at Dartmouth, went on to win his officer's stripes, put in two years and 89,000 miles...