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...Sloop Trim. In public office for 44 of the past 46 years-six as Governor and 21 as Senator-Saltonstall reflected the Brahmin's distaste for the spectacular and the controversial. But few men have worked harder or more competently in the public interest...
Salty could almost certainly have won another term in November. Though at 73 he is still as trim as the sloop he sails on Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week...
...trot around the Olympia High School track. In his first ten months in office, Republican Evans, 40, has also foundoccasion to hold a press conference in a swimming pool-leaving reporters wetter than wiser-break trail for a slalom contest, scale Mount Rainier and, when time permits, sail his sloop...
Copyreader Robert Manry, 48, went home to Cleveland last week, and proved that a man who manicures the news can also make it. Back from his high adventure-crossing the Atlantic in 78 days in his 131-ft. sloop, the Tinkerbelle-Manry was given a Cleveland reception that few celebrities and no other copyreaders have received. Ohio Governor James Rhodes greeted him and his family at the airport, praised him as "the epitome of dedication and devotion to sailing." His wife wept. A motorcade took him to Cleveland's Public Square, where he was met by 3,000 well...
...biggest story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerned one of its own em ployees. The paper kept its readers posted almost daily on the progress of Copy Editor Robert Manry, 48, who set out last June 1 from Falmouth, Mass., for Falmouth, England, aboard the frail 131-ft. sloop Tinkerbelle. Manry dutifully reported news of his crossing to the Plain Dealer via passing ships; once he sent a bundle of letters to his wife, and the Plain Dealer published those too. As all Cleveland concentrated on the adventures of its seagoing copy editor, the city's other paper, Scripps...