Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served 22 years on everything from a river gunboat in China to a destroyer off Korea. In 1953 McKenna suddenly deep-sixed the old salt image. Stumbling on Walden, he felt that his mind had been "in a deep freeze," decided to retire and become a writer. An old skipper charted his new course: go to the University of North Carolina, a good place for "a man with a purpose...
Carter Ford, Mike Horn, Mike Lehmass, and Dave Stookey will skipper the Crimson fleet...
...Crimson skippers Carter Ford and David Stookey entered their final three races in seventh place, 35 points behind leading Coast Guard, making up the difference with several firsts and seconds. Before these wins, Stookey's third place position in the second race of the day had been disqualified for an infraction of the rules. The regatta protest committee ruled that the Harvard skipper had failed to allow enough time when asking for room to round a buoy on the course. The club has questioned the decision, but plans no formal action...
...Saltonstalls and a Kennedy (Bobby). The fact that John F. Kennedy went to Choate, where the class of '35 voted him "most likely to succeed," helped deluge that already top school last year with a record 2,400 inquiries for 155 places. Other Choate alumni: Adlai Stevenson, Weatherly Skipper Bus Mosbacher, Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, Novelist John Dos Passos, Playwright Edward Albee (see THEATER...
Tony Davies, Dave Gantz, Robbie Robertson, and Des Fitz Gerald will crew for the team, and may get some experience handling the tiller. When possible, Ford is trying to let sophomores and juniors skipper in less crucial races, in order to prepare for a new front line next season...