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...Beating to windward in light air, American Skipper Warner Willcox eased his sleek, 33-ft. International Class sloop into a commanding lead, finished well ahead in the last of seven races to lead his team to victory over the Bermudians for the 51-year-old Amorita Cup, grand prize of Bermuda Race Week...
Lean, hard-eyed "Jimmy" Thach† has a Navy reputation as a brilliantly effective man with new ideas. He earned it as World War II skipper of carrier-based Fighting Squadron Three when he used an unorthodox two-plane gunnery maneuver of his own devising (the Thach Weave), which brought down 19 of 20 attacking Japanese "Betty" bombers above the Coral Sea. Similarly, Thach's new job calls for new tactics. He assumes command of an experimental unit called Task Force Alpha, which includes the carrier Valley Forge, eight destroyers, two hunter-killer submarines, planes, helicopters and blimps...
...June 1870, a Boston schooner skipper named Lorenzo Baker stopped at Port Morant, Jamaica, for a cargo of bamboo and some rum punch. While refreshing himself he bought-apparently with some misgiving-a load of bananas at 25? a bunch. The bananas were a bonanza; in the U.S. they brought $2.50 a bunch, and Captain Baker quickly went into the banana hauling business. Since then his company has grown into United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that...
...later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During the next six days, according to his Navy...
Navy Log: "He was the skipper: Kennedy, John F.," announced a voice on ABC's Navy Log last week. On the screen flashed the story of PT 109, a re-enactment of the best known World War II exploits of the ambitious Democratic Senator from Massachusetts. A Japanese destroyer sliced Kennedy's craft in two in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands one day in August 1943. Watertight bulkheads kept the wreckage afloat long enough for Skipper "Shafty" Kennedy, nicely played by Actor John Baer, to direct rescue operations and collect the remains of his crew. Soon...