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...Providence Sunday, the opposition was better and the sailing more exciting. As a result, the Crimson yachtsmen placed second behind Brown in other Jack Wood Trophy Pentagonal. M.I.T., the Coast Guard, and Dartmouth finished further back in that order. John Reed's last-minute tactics against ace Brown sailor John Quinn in Class B was the standout maneuver of the meet...
This most un-African parable of independence is succeeded in Marshall's repertory of family stories by his paternal grandfather, "a rough and tough sailor-man. He never knew what his first name was so he took two-Thoroughgood and Thornygood. He drew two sailor's pensions till the day he died-one in each name. I was named Thoroughgood after him but by the time I was in the second grade, I got tired of spelling all that and shortened it." His maternal grandfather, Isaiah O. B. (for Olive Branch, he said) Williams, also went...
...acted as a glorified cruise director. He directed Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to pilot British Chargé d'Affaires C. C. Parrott and his wife around the lake in a motorboat. The admiral almost ran down a rowboat in which Mikoyan was rowing Mrs. Bohlen. ("Mikoyan is an old sailor, and he is reliable in all respects," Khrushchev had assured Mrs. Bohlen.) U.S. Ambassador Bohlen then challenged Mikoyan to a rowing race, and when Bohlen won, Bulganin and other Soviet officials hooted Mikoyan...
Molotov Blushes. Molotov, getting into the act, took the Argentine ambassador and the Indonesian ambassador's wife out in another rowboat, but upset the boat when trying to beach it, and soaked everybody. "Molotov, you are a terrible sailor," said Defense Minister Zhukov, laughing heartily. "One should ride with you around the edge of the lake, not in the middle...
...auxiliary ketch owned by two Manhattan yachting writers who had just crossed the Atlantic in 22 days. The return trip to the U.S. took three hungry, storm-ridden months. Undaunted, Uffa worked his way back to England again, started making his mark as a builder and sailor of yachts...