Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe skipper Jane Chalmers '69 and Linda Little '67 swept every race in the second division, while Michele Disario '67 and Irene Laery '67 finished high enough in the first division to defeat the Mt. Holyoke sailors in combined totals...
...wallowed along in the wake of the U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, scooping up gobs of creamed beef and soggy lettuce in hopes of finding a classified document inadvertently mixed in the mess. Suddenly another American carrier reared on the horizon, and the Russian skipper bellowed an order. Snorting black diesel smoke and heeling heavily to port, his trawler set a course straight for the newcomer. The chase...
Yesterday, the Harvard sailing team steered past a field of eight New England colleges to win a 15-foot Finn class regatta. Boston University was actually in the lead going into the eighth and final race, but acrobatics by high point skipper Bill Underwood gave him his fourth first and Harvard the meet...
Battleships are majestic, destroyers are dashing, submarines are sinister -but LSTs (landing ship, tank) are slow, clumsy, ugly, and somehow faintly comic. Lieut. Jake Adler, who commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start...
...Athens last week, the young King of Greece was regaling his friends with his version of an encounter at sea. It seems the sky was clear and the wind low enough so that the officer on the deck of the U.S. carrier Saratoga was able to hail the youthful skipper of the sloop Proteus without a megaphone...