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...squad of varsity sailors journey to Providence today for a dual meet with Brown. Four boats, each with skipper and crew, will be competing. This same squad will sail at New London in a quadrangular meeting with M.I.T., Coast Guard, and Brown on Sunday...
...Caine Mutiny as to suggest a shipboard drama of events through a courtroom drama of character. Charles Laughton has staged the production with a superbly unswerving sense of the whole. Building slowly, the play at length walls in, not the court-martialed Lieut. Maryk, but his accuser, Commander Queeg, skipper of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine...
Starring as the reactivated reserve skipper, Gary Cooper is probably the best thing about the picture. In his usual--and favorite--role of Gary Cooper, he is quite at home on the bridge of his handy little ship. Wind whistles past his high cheekbones and salt spray lashes up to be-white his nautical brow as his first command is towed home by a Sancho Panza-type tug. His eighth failure to complete a test run has again resulted in burst boilers. The tug flashes a signal, and after the scant minutes his singal officer takes to decipher the more...
Died. Commander James J. Hughes, 55, skipper of the famed Xavy gunboat Panay when she was sunk in an attack by Japanese bombers in China's Yangtze River in 1937; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington...
...Nathanson, top varsity skipper and rated best skipper in the East, pulled the Crimson to within one point with one event remaining, but Tim Brown was forced into a marker and fouled out in the final race, which GWU took to win the meet...