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...captain last week and his brother Olin, 24, her designer. On corrected time, Flame dropped into third place and another U. S. boat, Henry and Sherman Morss's schooner Grenadier, was second. Sixth and last was the scratch boat Ilex. Said Robert Somerset, skipper of the Flame: "Flame went fast but so did Dorade and it was difficult to shake her off, although she is a much smaller boat...
...Skipper. There is good reason for Juan Terry Trippe, chief of the world's biggest air transport system, to think in terms of trade routes, to call his airplanes "clippers," to have at his desk corner an enormous mariner's globe-not of much use since it is an antique and lacks the names of many places on P. A. A.'s lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer...
...civic labors, last April she and her "73-year-old sea captain father" set out in a 48-ft. schooner, the Black Hawk, to sail around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell, yes, we're going on-rHit on around Cape Horn...
...toothpaste how was Bristol-Myers to press its Ipana, Sterling its Phillips' Dental Magnesia, and United Drug its Rexall Milk of Magnesia ToothPaste without competition? Third point was that the industrial future while looking less depressing than it did a few months ago, looks equally uncertain, and each skipper of the Drug Inc. flotilla wants plenty of sea room to ride out whatever weather lies
...Amberjack II came reports that her Skipper-President had told Professor Moley to take up U. S.-Russian recognition at the World Conference with moon-faced twinkly-eyed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. In London last week correspondents noticed that Comrade Litvinov, once accustomed to being snubbed by Statesman Stimson at Geneva, now hobnobs in friendly fashion with Snubber Stimson's successor, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the lobbying skirmish fortnight ago to get Vice Chief U. S. Delegate Cox elected Chairman of the Conference Monetary Committee (TIME, June 26), Comrade Litvinov battled from the first...