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Manning the dinghies flying the Crimson banner will be: in A division, skipper Frank P. Scully, Jr. '51, and Arthur F. Dickford, Jr. '50, crew: and B division, skipper Charles A. McElvoy, Jr. '51, and Edward J. Blake, Jr. '51, crew...
...Hope of a Kick. The Reading of Books is no fare for the page-skipper or the love-novel addict. But even for the incorrigibly lazy reader, Holbrook Jackson has a word of hope...
Unlike the Queens, the Media will never set a speed record. On her maiden voyage, she made the 3,073 nautical miles from Liverpool to New York at a comfortable 185 knots in six days and 23 hours. But her skipper was satisfied. She had done splendidly, said he, "in a bit of every kind of weather...
...intrepid clipper skipper braving a typhoon singlehanded; the terror of the Luftwaffe and the toast of the R.A.F.; a coldly insolent, julep-sucking riverboat gambler; the surgeon who takes over when all seems lost and is soon able to say, "Don't cry, little girl, your brother will play the violin again." And in every one of these heroic visions the same lovely blonde (Virginia Mayo) is on hand to worship...
During the novice singles eliminations Wednesday, an ex-PT boat skipper, Jim Queeny, piloted his craft to the most impressive victory of the day and made himself the favorite for the final with a 3:32 clocking in the first heat. John Brewer, who trailed Queeny, also qualified, since there were only two heats. The winner of the other trial, John Bisbee, and his runner-up, L. W. Barroll, round out the novice singles finalists...