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...well-built boat, and a lot of clever, original thinking has gone into her design." Whatever U.S. boat defends against Gretel off Newport, R.I., this September will have to earn the right. Columbia, skippered by Corny's son "Glit," has been in drydock all winter getting a shorter, sharper keel, a new mast, new sails, and new "coffee grinder" winches. Says the senior Shields: "People ask, 'Why change a boat that is obviously very fast?' Well, we figure we need every advantage we can get to lick our competition." Chandler Hovey's Easterner, trounced...
Failure & Proof. Even though Saturn's successful test last week demonstrated that U.S. missiles pack increasing power, it remained for another missile to prove that Cape Canaveral's marksmen are getting sharper, too. Ranger IV rose perfectly from its pad, engines screaming as it highballed toward its lunar landing. Almost 64 hours later, Ranger hit the far side of the moon, but its flight was far from an unqualified success. Soon after takeoff, something went wrong with the computer that was supposed to control the missile's many instruments and trans mit the data back to earth...
...Emlyn then, but George. When he was ten, his parents made an expedition to the town of Shotton, where he saw his first movie. The town itself was almost as much of an astonishment as the "livin' pictiars." "Not only were the bicycles going quicker and ringing sharper bells, but the people with the preoccupied faces were walking brisker, the smoke from the strange houses blew faster, and even the town clouds, brown at the edges from smuts and sophistication, raced swifter over a man-made...
...even as sharp stewards and sharper-eyed film patrol cameras taught racing to mind its manners, Jockey Edward George Arcaro learned to mind his manners, too. Either way-playing it rough or smooth-Eddie had more than enough skill to stay in front. Last week, when he finally decided to retire at 46, Eddie Arcaro was still a long length ahead of the field. In 31 years hunched over the shoulders of America's finest thoroughbreds, he had brought home $30,039,543 in prize money - more cash than has ever been won by any jockey in history...
years have marshmellowed Jerome Weidman. His 1937 bestselling novel stingingly chronicled the rise of a Manhattan Garment District amoralist named Harry Bogen who was sharper than a Seventh Avenue lapel. In fashioning a musical from that book. Weidman has turned his whole-souled heel into a halfhearted villain, poured sentimental goo over the satire, and given Harry a last-scene redemptive delousing unmatched since the Hays office took in ethical cleansing...