Word: skippered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HARVARD SKIPPER. Bobby Green, who will captain the Harvard University Football team in 1938, shown after his election at the Dillon house at Cambridge, Mass. He succeeds the famous Clint Frank as captain of the Crimson and is in his junior year...
Stevenson's story is common knowledge. Suffice it to say that Oscar Homolka, as the liquor beridden skipper who lost his ship and his papers while suffering from overmuch tipping of the bottle, is at times excellent and at times downright boring. Barry Fitzgerald, as the disreputable cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger...
...play's situation entangles a boy in love with boats and a lady Ph.D. immersed in case histories. Christine Lawrence, virgin psychologist (Doris Daiton), meets young Skipper Hayden Chase (Henry Fonda), who distrusts learning and takes out fishing parties on the cutter which he bought after leaving Dartmouth. Despite the disparity of their interests, they fall in love, spending a night together when he jams his boat on a convenient sand bar. Love triumphs temporarily when Hayden takes a job in the city and marriage follows. Then their incompatibility leads them through quarrels to the brink of divorce...
Same day Endeavour II arrived at Gosport. Partner Sopwith boarded her in brief, for Captain Williams, his friend and skipper for a decade, had died on board of a gastric hemorrhage...
...Skipper Sopwith won the first two races before losing the series to Skipper Vanderbilt's Rainbow. The historic one-sidedness of this year's series caused the more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...