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...Skipper Ludwig, a long, lean, lone-wolf operator who speaks softly and seldom, sailed to his riches through heavy seas. Born in South Haven, Mich., he started as a marine engine mechanic in his teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers...
...Hours. The steel-hulled Pamir set sail from Hamburg last June for Falmouth, England, and Buenos Aires, with a complement of 53 cadets and 33 veteran seamen aboard. Last week, homeward bound from B.A., she was struck by the full (127-knot) force of Carrie, which the skipper had not expected to hit for a full two hours. Even as Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper...
Died. Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, 69, U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period...
...time tennis (TIME, July 22). Pancho was right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging 2,407 miles...
...Mayflower had arrived as tempest-tossed as its namesake. Under the hand of oldtime Australian Skipper Alan Villiers, the 32-man crew had bounced along, wave-lashed in a peanut shell for 53 days (v. 66 days for the original...