Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...binding plant outside Los Angeles. Lieut. Marovish was a prosperous insurance broker. He had bought a new home a few weeks before being recalled. The business was going down every day and he was worried sick. Sooner or later he feared he'd lose that house. Their skipper back at the base was Lieut. Commander Ray Nittinger, Lieut. Marovish's insurance partner. It isn't easy for men like these to swallow this sort of thing without gagging slightly...
...other skippers besides Scully were Jim Nathanson in Division A and Charlie McElroy and Tim Brown in B. According to one prominent Yacht Club member the reason for the Crimson's victory was that "we just slipped our First Division skipper in before M.I.T...
Hoppin, a sophomore, turned in the best performance of the regatta. He took three first places and four seconds, and beat M.I.T.'s Howie Fawcett, new England's number one skipper last fall, by one point. Scully won three races...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
Heading into the Panama Canal one morning last week, the skipper of the 7,517-ton American-Hawaiian line freighter Nevadan got word that his ship was due for a little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than...