Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within 1,500 miles of China when her master received radioed orders from her owners to halt. Early one morning last week, the dirty, dumpy Wiima, loaded to the Plimsoll line with her 7,000-ton cargo, dropped anchor 20 miles from Singapore. "I am waiting," said her skipper, "for further orders from my owners. To run to China is a great risk, but it is my job, and my crew is in good humor...
Nathanson the top skipper in New England, will automatically become captain of the varsity sailing team, defending national champions...
Nathanson posted an .875 percentage during the fall season, to lead all New England skippers. His teammate, retiring commodore Charlie Hoppin, was second with .841. The figures are the ratio of points actually won to the total points a skipper could possibly have gained...
...Cross, Silver Star, etc.), later wrote Submarine!, the liveliest and most authentic account of underseas combat to come out of World War II. He began his sub service aboard the renowned Trigger, which sank at least 27 Japanese ships, wound up the war with his own command. As postwar skipper of the Amberjack, he made himself a terror to carrier admirals during war games. His favorite trick was to sneak up on a carrier, photograph her through his periscope, mail the admiral a print with "Regards from Ned Beach and the Amberjack...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists). Director John Huston's Techni-colored version of C. S. Forester's novel about a prissy spinster and a gin-swilling skipper; with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...