Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bostonian Lowells and Lodges, the Cabots are known for "customs, not manners," and there is no more bohemian Brahmin than Harvard's stocky, cigar-smoking treasurer, Paul Codman Cabot, 66. Fiercely energetic, shatteringly frank, he can curse like a barge captain, yet guide a big investment like the skipper of a liner. Last week, two months before his mandatory retirement, he achieved a lifetime goal by pushing the market value of Harvard's investments past $1 billion. No other university comes close to such an endowment...
...with a brand-new, 38-ft. "heavy weather" boat powered by twin 550-h.p. General Motors diesels. But where was the weather? The 183-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau was as calm as a Palm Beach swimming pool. "Any ski boat could win this race," sneered one disgruntled skipper as 46 competitors lined up for the start...
When the McMillan Cup races were moved from the spring to the fall this year, the Kennedy Regatta was scheduled for April. In 1933 the late President skippered the Crimson to a victory in the McMillan Cup. One of the skippers he beat, Robert Bavier of Williams, last summer won the America's Cup races as skipper of the Constellation...
Harvard was the first named of the two New England teams invited to the regatta, which is held each spring. Ned Butler will skipper one of the Navy's 44-foot yawls, and will be supported by a crew of eight--two of whom have had wide experience on 12-meter America's Cup racers...
...Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...