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...books, the 1941 Varsity lightweights rowed the fastest Henley over the Charles on record, and that includes efforts by heavy crews. On the crest of a squall the H. H. Haines special covered the mile and five-sixteenths in 6:40, a full second under the course record set by the 1942 Freshman boat...
...with a vengeance. The Fannie Insley, carrying a load of empty oyster shells across the bay to a fertilizer factory in Crisfield, Md., had sailed without her. Captain Grant did not mind sea smells, but she drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small boat over, abandoned ship just in time. Down...
...film includes pictures of fishing in the Gulf Stream, close-up views of a school of dolphin, and shots of a squall off the Cuban coast, Habana Harbor, a race with a Cuban schooner, and a gale off Cape Hatteras. It is designed to give some conception of life aboard a small sailing ship during an extended voyage...
Maney's most successful stunt was for The Squall, which opened as a floperoo. A line in the play ran "Nubi bad girl, Nubi stay." Reviewing The Squall in the old Life, Robert Benchley retched: "Nubi stay, Benchley go." Quickly Maney hoisted big ads reading: "See the play that made a streetwalker of Robert Benchley." The Squall ran over a year...
...busy handling dozens of complaints from irate people whom television sounds kept butting in on. To radio fans NBC in desperation sent six pages of technical instructions on how to eliminate television's interference. Mr. Knox got another type of earphone and waited for the next squall...