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There were only four repeaters from last year's squad. They were first baseman Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, outfielder Hank Aaron, left-handed pitcher Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves, and outfielder Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees...
Just as rugged as Sceptre is her crew of ten regulars and seven alternates, hand-picked from among Britain's best sailors after spring tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master...
What happened to make Toni feel that way? On a pleasant evening several weeks back, she had driven out to a nightclub with her dull but good-looking young man. Stan Walters, as described by his teen-age brother, is "the guy who goes through life and nothing happens because he keeps counting his change." On this night, really afraid of love behind his great-lover facade, Stan got hopelessly drunk. Toni, trying to get home alone, was forced into a stolen car by two young toughs, was raped, brutally beaten and thrown...
...world is steadily rotting away because of the unease felt by the people around her. An old neighbor lady whom she has known from childhood cuts her on the street. At her summer school her instructor barely disguises his leer. Her younger sister pruriently prods her with questions. And Stan Walters shifts rapidly from guilt and remorse to jealousy and suspicion, accuses her of having invited the attack. Gradually, Toni moves into a limbo beyond sanity, and begins to wonder if in some way she had not asked for what happened. At length, her puzzled and angered parents seem...
...works with his three sons-Dave, 51, Stan, 45, and Bill, 39-one of whom is at the helm while the others help Rosy take pictures. He keeps about ten cameras in a special frame on top of the engine hatch, garners up to 500 negatives on a good day. Every picture taken by him or his sons bears the same credit line: Morris Rosenfeld. Rosy's pictures bring as much as $5,000 each. They often settle fouling claims for bedeviled racing officials, and solve design problems for stumped yacht architects...