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Princeton, which boasts an outstanding skipper in Bill Cox, Jr., and two other excellent men, Spencer Kellogg and Ed Greenberg, is nearly everybody's favorite to defeat the Crimson team of Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann and Peter Farrow. A strong contingent of Yalies headed by New England Monotype Champion Bob Spitz could slip by Harvard to gain second, however...
...almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed his wife and housekeeper...
...renowned as the "House of Morgan" was John P. Morgan II, 43, grandson of J. P. Morgan and great-grandson of the great J. Pierpont. A Harvardman (class of 1940) who has been with Morgan's ever since he finished a World War II tour as a subchaser skipper, the latest J. P. is described by colleagues as "a man who doesn't take himself elaborately . . . a working banker whose name happens to be Morgan...
...cruiser had enough electronic equipment to fit out a small space satellite: hifi, stereo, TV, RDF, ship-to-shore radio, as well as refrigerator, push-button electric anchor, three-ton central air-conditioning unit, and separate power plant. Bored by the waste of time involved in troll fishing, its skipper located fishing holes with his electronic depth gauge, then sportingly set out bait and hook. Sleek and awesome as a jet fighter, as it nosed through the same waters, was a 16-ft. home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat...
Died. Rear Admiral Giles Chester Stedman, USNR, 63, vice president of the United States Lines and former superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a skilled skipper famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner...