Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anonymous Army spokesmen, with a knowing air, thought that the Navy (which has joined the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency in banning The Moon Is Blue) might be making a record for the future. Coming soon: The Caine Mutiny, a movie about sex, misery and a fumbling Annapolis-bred skipper, which the Navy may want to ban from all the ships...
...week before, they had been captured by a Nationalist warship but released under the guns of the Royal Navy's frigate St. Bride's Bay. Nigelock is one of a hundred British merchantmen (some under charter to Red China) engaged in Chinese coastal trade. Its crew and skipper expect to run into trouble: war-risk insurance on the China coast is the world's highest...
...ship's skipper is Paul Ramsey, 48, a trim-mustached four-striper (Annapolis '27), a top-notch Navy flyer in World War II, who is prone to roar "What the Hell!" when things go wrong in combat. The 3,000 officers and men call him "Captain Paul," and he refers to his crew as "Ramsey's Little Lamseys...
...later 25-ft. Class R type sloop, Corny learned what every good sailor must learn: how to anticipate and take advantage of every little change in weather and tide. By 1909, when the family was settled down in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., 14-year-old Corny was the acknowledged skipper of the 25-footer, and had set about learning racing tactics in competition: to get the jump on rivals at the start, maneuver a boat so as to steal the wind from a leading boat and pass her, cut a rival off at the turning of a mark or crossing...
...Fleet Skipper. Corny also became a student at Brooklyn's Poly Prep. He captained the swimming team, played end in football, and was a 220-yd.-dash man at school. But his chief interest was dashing off somewhere to sail. At 22, he won his first Long Island Sound championship in a Larchmont Interclub Class sloop...