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...fiber glass Seawind sailboat that is advertised by the Allied Boat Co. of Catskill, N.Y., as capable of "crossing an ocean if you will." After a year of preparation, Eddy decided he was ready to do just that. So he set sail in the wake of Joshua Slocum, the retired trading-ship captain who took off from Boston in a 37-ft. converted oyster boat back in 1895 and returned three years later as the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehanded...
Only two dozen sailors have duplicated Slocum's feat-and many of them like Britain's Sir Francis Chichester, made the most of the resulting publicity. Eddy belongs to a different crew. For him the most satisfying sport in the world is to shrink his world to the size of a cruising sailboat and to enjoy that world at leisure. Unlike Sir Francis, who made only one stop on his 275-day voyage, Eddy spent 51 casual years visiting some 400 ports...
...SALLY SLOCUM St. Louis
...picked up the habit of accumulating columnists, and last week Conniff faced the task of finding space for Pundits Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Henry J. Taylor, William F. Buckley Jr., William S. White, Bob Considine and Jim Bishop. For sports, there were Red Smith, Bill Slocum and Jimmy Cannon. And then, besides Buchwald and Schaap, there were Walter Winchell, Harriet Van Home, John McClain, Frank Farrell...
...story was right out of TV's spy-spoofing Get Smart! When a top CIA man named Hans V. Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers-and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit...