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...bank began to ring, Mr. Thurston began to put two & two together. He learned that his missing employes and 30 others had sailed the day before from Dyer's Cove, 60 miles from inland Rumford, to picnic on Monhegan Island. They had been taken there by Skipper Paul Johnson on the Don, a 44-foot "Nova Scotian," long past her rum-running prime. Thurston telephoned to the Coast Guard. They had seen nothing...
...accustomed to air outside of their own wind-tunnels, at first did not wish to hazard forth on the frothy surface. Finally, after one of the dinghys broke loose from its moorings and led all concerned a merry chase before it was captured in a soggy condition, the Engineer skipper capitulated and the Race Committee want to work...
Through these tactics it became necessary to tack down wind in order to reach the leeward mark, and while the Tech skipper was figuring out problems of aerodynamic import on his calibrated sliderule, the great Miller with consummate ease jibed his craft three times, but on each occasion his machinations bailed and Tech ran off with the "championship...
...strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
Outstanding skipper on the river was Lennie Romangia of Brown who captured several firsts in his ten starts, pushing the Bears total up to 108, one point behind the Crimson. Skipper Roger Wilcox '41 and John S. Winship '41, sailed one of the Cantab boats while Robert B. Sherwood '13 and Arthur L. Besse '42 handled the other...