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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...
...quaking daughters' pincushions, urging them to better habits. On the other hand, he thought nothing of suddenly taking off and striding madly 15 or 20 miles through the night streets of London, or of popping through the window into a friend's drawing room, dressed as a sailor and dancing a hornpipe...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
Forty-five years ago, when Gotfred was born in a village close to Kirkenes, that might not have mattered. Russia was a good 40 miles away. But things have changed since then. Gotfred, son of a Marxist day laborer, had traveled far & wide as a sailor, tramp printer and roustabout. In 1931 he went to Moscow. He returned to Norway after that, but during the war, when the mines and homes of Kirkenes were demolished and villagers huddled together in derelict mineshafts, Hoelvold was back in Russia as a Norwegian-language news commentator on the radio. By the time...
Through the night and the next day, sensation-seeking politicians and radio commentators whipped Cuban emotions. Newspapers front-paged pictures of the sailor perched on the statue, printed yards of invective against the "barbaric yanqui vandals." Shouted Senator Eduardo Chibas: "Neither American nor men, but beasts." The Communist daily Hoy went into an anti-American frenzy, devoted its entire front page to violent denunciations...