Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Absolute Skipper. Corny has worked out his own design for living on the water. Five mornings a week, he is at his desk in Wall Street's Shields & Co., the family brokerage house. But two days a week-and as many other afternoons as he can justify to his conscience-he heads for the Larchmont Yacht Club, one block from his home, on the north shore of Long Island Sound. There he doffs his banker-style clothes for khaki pants and a polo shirt, gathers a three-man crew and hoists sail. On a good...
...boat, Corny is the absolute skipper. "I want all the responsibility," he says. He also admits: "I hate to lose!" Rival skippers-one affectionately calls him "a genius"-would rather beat him than anyone else for just that reason; plus, of course, the satisfaction that comes from beating the North American sailing champion. This week, Corny celebrated the second day of Larchmont Race Week by leading 19 other Internationals home in a brisk, 18-knot northeasterly. Said Corny happily: "The harder it blows, the better I like...
...relaxation at the tiller of Aileen. With her identifying numeral, 25, on her mainsail, Aileen is probably hailed more than any other boat in Long Island waters. He invariably answers all calls, even from total strangers who hail him as "Corny." Often he adds a compliment to the passing skipper on the looks of his boat. To Corny Shields, "all boats are beautiful...
...feels that an ideal vacation is 36 holes of golf every day of the week.) After graduating from Brown University, he joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut. John Kennedy (no kin, now the junior Senator from Massachusetts), whose boat had been rammed...
Nathanson was high-point skipper with 74 points over the two-day regatta, but the Crimson's real here was Brown, who replaced Hoppin in the first day's sailing...