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Even Radio Peking seemed unable to swallow the idea of hostile attack, announcing only that the government was "attaching great importance" to the sinking. The tone of the broadcast suggested that whatever face the skipper had saved in Japan with his torpedo tale would be quickly dissipated once he came back to face the music in Tsingtao...
This weekend Ford and Michael Lehmann '63 will skipper two Crimson crews in the annual race for the Owen Trophy, the unofficial Eastern championship, in Annapolis...
Crimson sailors captured 11 first places, seven seconds, one third, and two fourths. Stookey was high point skipper with 53 points, but Horn who tied with M.I.T.'s Bob Klare, was close behind with 52. Ford finished the afternoon with...
...first series of test dives-all shallow. She performed perfectly, and at 9 p.m. Tuesday headed for deep water 220 miles off Cape Cod. Next morning, with Skylark bobbing above and maintaining constant contact with sonar and telephone, Thresher glided through a set of medium-depth dives. Her skipper, Lieut. Commander John Wesley Harvey, 35, decided that she was ready for the maximum test. None of this was new to him. An Annapolis graduate (eighth in the 696-member class of '50), he logged three years and 100,000 miles aboard the nuclear submarine Nautilus and got Thresher...
...with luau, leis and instant romance for all aboard. As a business. Matson (1962 revenues: $100 million) is somewhat less glamorous. Labor troubles and stockholder squabbles led it into a storm that climaxed in an operating loss of $2,400,000 in 1961. Then, Matson called in a new skipper, Stanley Powell Jr., 46, rounding out his first year as president, proved last week that he has begun to bring the line back into clearer sailing weather: he reported that Matson earned $2,249,000 in 1962, and had the best showing in six years on its all-important...