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Harvard was once the top sailing college in the Ivy League, winning the very first Ivy League Championships in 1962, the New England team racing championships twice, the New England sloop championships for three consecutive years, and placing in the top three for three consecutive North American championships...
Some of this past glory now may be on its way back to Harvard. Crimson sailors already have qualified for this year's New England Sloop Championships by placing first in the elimination rounds two weeks ago. The team, skippered by Art Rousmaniere and crewed by Steve Strittmatter, George Bratt and Caris' Field, is favored to win the New Englands, a victory that would earn the boat a berth in the National Championships...
...since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove, bookshelves and a piano. At Seattle's Shilshole Bay Marina, John Polikowsky, 55, an art teacher, has spent six years building his 44-ft. live-aboard sloop, Panope. "This," he says, "is a good combination of having my cake and living...
...began in late September the intriguing mystery of an ex-spook's last voyage, aboard a sloop that he had fancifully but appropriately named Brillig, from the "Jabber, wocky" in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. After the body was discovered, the CIA insisted that there was no mystery. Paisley was not a spy, said a CIA press spokesman. He was an intelligence analyst. Moreover, he had retired from the agency in 1974. The CIA had no quarrel with Maryland state police theories that Paisley had committed suicide. Six months before his death, he had left...
Whatever the truth, the Paisley case probably will remain one of those frustrating detective stories without a tidy ending. Unless, of course, John Arthur Paisley is still alive and some day reveals what really happened on the sloop Brillig 's final, fateful voyage...