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Smart is the first to admit that there will be cagier seamen than he in the competition even though he's been handling the tiller according to one Nantucket legend since the tender age of six. But "there's only so much skill in handling a boat, and from there Lady Luck takes over," he says...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Smart Navigates Star In Bid for Olympics | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

Behind Smith from bow up are Henry Erhard, Art Hall, George Hall, Julian Roosevelt, Dave Clark, Bill Evarts, and Bill Dowd with Clark, Dowd, and the Hall twins the two-year veterans. The Halls' older brother, Howland, is the man Smith must replace. Taking over the tiller ropes this year is Charles Kregar...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: 'Champ' 150 Crew Set for MIT Saturday | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...Paul Gray Hoffman takes the tiller of ECA, an exhausted, socialistic Europe will meet an ebullient U.S. businessman and an evangelist of free enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Noah | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...rotary tiller which, avoiding the ruinous, soil-destroying effects of the moldboard plow (TIME, July 26), chops, harrows and disks the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farming De Luxe | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Into North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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