Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Trademarked by his boyishly unruly shock of brown hair, slim Jack Kennedy, 39, has looks, brains, personality, an attractive wife (who is expecting her first baby in October). He has a fine World War II record as a PT-boat skipper in the Pacific, a noteworthy vote-getting ability in a pivotal state (he defeated Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. by 70,700 votes in 1952), reputation as an able, independent-thinking, middle-of-the-road member of both House (1946-52) and Senate. If the Democrats are to make their big pitch...
...Skipper Geib and his six-man crew on the Fleetwood played it cozy all the way. Geib stayed to leeward of the sloop Rangoon, took warning when squalls hit her and she heeled over, had ample time to douse his own spinnaker. Never for a moment did he really stop racing. With his light hull and yawl rig, Nick Geib could hoist plenty of canvas, and the race was a spinnaker run most of the way. He never hesitated to use that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever...
Comfortably sipping a victory martini out of one of his galley's plastic cups, Skipper Geib sounded off with pride, "This is a helluva boat," and flung a challenge to the current hot boat on the saltwater circuit. Bermuda Racewinner Finisterre. Said he: "What with Finisterre and Figaro, a lot of people are saying that the day of the keel boat is over-that the centerboarders are the new thing. I'd like to see Finisterre come out here and race on the Great Lakes. I think we could give her a run for her money. Sure, bring...
...would command the allied fighting forces of southern Europe but in peacetime would have virtually nothing to do (since each NATO country exercises direct command of its own forces). Soon Navy wives and children also dropped anchor in Naples, began appearing on shipboard at mealtime. NATO South's skipper, Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, decided that the families were rocking the boat, shifted his headquarters to dry land...
...looked carefree as he emplaned for Brussels and a convention of the World Veterans Federation. Flying with him was Disabled Veteran Harold Russell, onetime cinemactor (The Best Years of Our Lives) and an official of the World Veterans Fund headed by Vanderbilt, a wartime Navy lieutenant and PT-boat skipper...