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...morning brings a fresh set of problems. An ore carrier called the George Stinson is downbound. Known unaffectionately as "Gorgeous George," the Stinson is a recently built 1,000-ft.-long Goliath of the lakes. Gorgeous she isn't; unmanageable she is. Says a company skipper who has been on the lakes since 1936: "Those thousand footers don't belong up here." Hall further defines the problem. "They need a lot of power to avoid getting stuck. But if they come barreling around the turns full bore, they wind up in the trees...
...last bout in the ECAC foil finals yesterday, Gene Vastola would shake his opponent's hand only after considerable persuasion from the director. As it turned out, a particularly unsportsmanlike knee to the groin (at least if it was deliberate) had provoked the Crimson skipper's unfriendliness...
...other fencers, skipper Gene Vastola, as usual, had the best record on the day. He swept aside three Eli fencers with identical 5-2 scores. Against his first opponent, Bruce Murray, Vastola had two almost double-jointed touches. By making his arm and blade into a "V" by bending his wrist back at least 90 degrees, he slipped around Murray's blade for the touches. Epee fencers Russ Kaphan and Rob Kaplan each had 2-1 records...
...heroic efforts of Crimson skipper Gene Vastola could not make up for the lapses of some of his more experienced teammates. Vastola captured all three of his bouts, giving up just three touches, all in the first bout, in the process...
Even if it all turns out brilliantly next week, it won't be the same. They'll still look like actors in funny clothes forcing it, pretending they're Gilligan, the Skipper, and the rest. Gilligan's Island is a legend, and it's so much a part of our collective unconscious that any tinkering makes us wince. Like it or not, Gilligan's Island shaped our lives, and they can't pass off this withered piece of camp as the real thing...