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Died. Burton Edwin Shotton, 77, one of baseball's least noisy and best liked managers, who twice replaced Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as skipper of the Brooklyn Dodgers, taking over in 1947 after Durocher drew a season's suspension for feuding with Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail, and coming back again in 1948 after Durocher quit to manage the New York Giants, twice piloted the Dodgers to National League pennants; of a heart attack; in Lake Wales...
...somebody called Ensign O'Toole out to the Pacific, while ABC will fight in both hemispheres and on all fronts: Combat will follow U.S. soldiers from Normandy across France and into Germany; The Gallant Men will campaign in Italy; and Ernest Borgnine, in McHale's Men, will skipper a PT boat in the South Pacific as a sort of Marty Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...first "observation" trials, two boats came out clear-cut favorites: Ted Hood's buxom $300,000 Nefertiti, the glamour boat of the warmup trials, with ten wins and only two defeats; and Weatherly, an also-ran in the 1958 cup trials, which finally found her speed with canny Skipper Bus Mosbacher (TIME. July 13) at the helm. Even Nefertiti's butter-fingered crew could not seem to slow her down. In one race they fumbled a spinnaker overboard in their haste to get it flying, still breezed to victory. Only against Weatherly (seven wins, four losses) did Nefertiti...
...each day." At 40, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher is practically a prodigy. Yet last week, as the America's Cup 12-meter trials got under way in the wind-rippled waters off Newport, R.I., Mosbacher turned in a performance that would be difficult for anyone to beat. As skipper of Weatherly, a good, but never before great yacht, Mosbacher drove her to four brilliant victories in a row against the roughest competition U.S. yachting could offer. Eventually, he lost to Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, and then, by a close 43 sec., to Nefertiti, the highly touted...
...ever handled a big, 12-meter America's Cup yacht, Bus took venerable Vim-oldest (by 19 years) boat in the U.S. trials -all the way to the finals before he was nosed out by Corny Shields and Briggs Cunningham in Columbia. Last summer, he signed on as skipper of Chandler Hovey's Easterner, a boat that had not won a single race in the 1958 trials; with it, he beat Columbia and Weatherly his first time at the helm. But when Owner Hovey would not give him a free hand to select a crew for this summer...