Word: skeeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week on Michigan's Lake St. Clair, William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks...
...Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, the verdict made a major problem out of a minor incident: Robinson filed a $100,000 suit for damages. While he was held for six days on the trespassing charge, he said, "his loyal and faithful dog," an 18-year-old mongrel named Skeeter, "was left unattended and, as a direct result, suffered a stroke...
Marriage Revealed. Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph, 21, world's fastest woman, winner of three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics; and William Ward, 25, fellow Tennessee State student and promising half-miler; in Franklin, Tenn...
...Garden. And by tradition, the event has been stag night for the competitors. But last week Millrose officials saw fit to schedule a special 60-yd. dash for the ladies. The reason: to give the New York track crowd its first look at Tennessee State's willowy Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph. 20. triple gold medal winner and the outstanding athlete at last summer's Olympic Games in Rome...
...personalities in all sport. By the hour, she patiently answered the same questions thrown at her by relays of newsmen ("Yes, Rome was my greatest experience. No, I have no plans to marry right away"). Delighted with the attention Wilma was getting, Tennessee State Track Coach Ed Temple said: "Skeeter never makes the common mistake of trying to prove she's as good as a man. She's a woman...