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Pilot Lost. Last week by all odds the most dashing American-born ornament of the R.A.F. got into trouble too close to the French shore to get out to the floats. He is rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...Hurricane fighters in an attack on Nazi Channel shipping. As he suddenly pulled out of a dive, his motor streaming smoke, he radioed: "I have been hit and am going to force-land in France. . . . Squadron to return to its base." He was last seen gliding toward the Nazi shore...
...annual Miles River Regatta, held off St. Michaels, a crabbing port on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is as plain as an old scow. Yachtsmen have been known to row up to the dock in their underwear, wander into the best pub in town wearing pajama pants and a battered silk hat. Ashore, some 5,000 folks loll around in shirt sleeves, suck Popsicles, guzzle beer, chase small fry who get lost in the crowd...
Anyone can enter a boat in the Miles races. Last week, for its 79 events, there were 1,500 entries: ranging from sleek sloops and speedboats to the work boats of local oystermen and crabbers. In the sailing classes there were Snipes, Stars, Comets (the Eastern Shore's own baby), Scrappy Cats, Sneak Bores, Crickets. But the heart of the Miles River Regatta is the hallowed log canoe...
Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...