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Tuesday, the Navy radioed the Seawolf some questions. Cmdr. Richard B. Laning, the skipper, replied: At 10:45 a.m., EST, the Seawolf had been submerged continuously, "without any contact with the earth's atmosphere, for 54 days...
...convoy leader, U.S.S. Gregory, TIME & LIFE'S Scot Leavitt reports: By 3 p.m. Destroyer Squadron 17 is in position off Quemoy, three of its ships 15 miles offshore, and Gregory just over three. "I don't think they dare come near us," says Gregory's skipper, Commander Felix G. Young, who has served in destroyers for 17 of his 27 years in the Navy. "But I've been shot at by Germans and Italians and Japanese and Russians and Chinese Communists before. If we get into a scrap, they won't be getting any virgin...
...only were her pilots flying within jet-age spitting distance of Red Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...
...himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual who is most responsible for Columbia's basic speed: Designer Olin Stephens, 50, world's best yacht architect...
Just as rugged as Sceptre is her crew of ten regulars and seven alternates, hand-picked from among Britain's best sailors after spring tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master...