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Another milestone occurred Sunday night, as Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni recorded his 100th victory behind the Crimson bench. The skipper is 100-63-19 (.602) in his six seasons behind the Harvard bench...
...charged with making men out of them in White Squall is Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges), skipper of the Albatross, a sailing ship he has turned into a floating secondary school. He's the sort of father figure these chinless wonders have never had--stern but caring, and at one with the winds and the waves. Also, he seems to have the ability to tell them apart, a matter on which Todd Robinson's script--not to mention the casting director--is not very helpful. Sheldon's promise is that after a year of crewing with him, all the nonsense will...
...Senior skipper Erik Egelston and his partner, freshman Cory Ermler, defeated 25 other boats in the A division while in the B division the second Harvard boat duo of senior skipper Dave Wilson and sophomore Leila Kawar placed an impressive third...
Also, Sunday the Harvard men's sailing team led by skipper Dan Parks placed a modest third in the New England Sloop Championship at the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut. A first or second place finish would have qualified the team for the nationals...
...Snakes Are Really Like), business derring-do (Dr. Geiger's Little Magic Box) and side-splitting Humor in Uniform. As for family life, the Saturday Evening Post observed it only through a flattering scrim, with its Norman Rockwell portraits of boys gone fishin' and short stories such as "The Skipper Was a Dame (No one wanted to charter a boat that had a lady captain. What Helen needed was a man).'' In this well-ordered world, mothers stayed home and fathers, who smoked Lucky Strikes, worked and worried about their daughters going off on dates and about the menace...