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...simply telling people that Christina had some business things she needed to take care of before the honeymoon, but frankly, nobody believes this. What we really think is that it suddenly dawned on her that maybe the Russians would try to steal all her boats and in one fell sloop suddenly take over the shipping world. We also think that she had second thoughts about setting up housekeeping in Moscow, in a little flat with his mother, I mean, we couldn't picture Christina washing Sergei's socks and shorts in the kitchen sink and eating borsch...
...Neil Armstrong, who holds the record for the highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...
...Philip Arthur George Mount-batten-Windsor did not exist, who could invent him? Consider. He can pilot a jet fighter and knows enough about helicopters to help repair them. He has skippered a Royal Navy minesweeper through North Atlantic gales with the skill of a yachtsman handling a racing sloop. He plays an aggressive, three-plus-handicap game of polo and is a qualified paratrooper. He is a gifted amateur cellist who can be moved to tears while listening to the music of Berlioz. He has scuba-dived in the Caribbean, schussed down Alps, sambaed into the night with Brazilian...
...tasted good, you think, but damn if you can remember what was in 'em. Son of a Son of a Sailor takes no chances--the formula worked last time, sent him from Paul's Mall to the Music Hall, frontal-assaulted the Top Forty, and paid for a new sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff-diving voice drops at the end of a line and flattens out the splash. This...
Senior co-captain Jim Hammitt lowered the boom on the "A" competition by steering his sloop to a first-place finish on the Moore Trophy course, which ran from one side of the Throgs Neck Bridge to the other. Laura Brown, the captain of Harvard's women's team, crewed for Hammitt...