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Living year-round in this wretched tourist town is a gang of resolute ne'er-do-wells who wait for the swinging summer months to con the vacationers. Leader of the group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his way of tagging every new bird on the scene. He and his cronies nest down with most of them, though their conquests seem singularly joyless. Typical, for Tinker, is one giddy pickup who starts nattering about love the minute she gets her clothes...
...everything from long flights to Buenos Aires to costly Texas puddle jumps, but the airline had not won a new route for ten years and was barely making money. "Flying had become a crawling bore," says Lawrence today. "But flying should be fun-and colors are fun." When Jack Tinker & Partners, the ad agency that Lawrence hired while he was increasing his advertising budget from $2,500,000 to $6,500,000, suggested colored airplanes, Lawrence leaped at the idea...
...Tether. So was the rest of the world. Seventy-eight days earlier, Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland "Plain Dealer, had quietly set out alone in the 131-ft. Tinker belle from Falmouth, Mass., for the other Falmouth 3,200 miles away, thinking no one would pay any attention. No one did until a fortnight ago, when it suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters...
...Atlantic had not been easily conquered. Sudden gales blew the Tinker belle on her side; she bobbed upright because of her special flotation material. Manry napped during the day and sailed at night so that he could signal away ships that might otherwise have run him down in the dark. Even so, he said, "ever so often some great steamer would come bearing down." On several occasions, he was washed overboard in heavy seas; each time he hauled himself back aboard by a lifeline that tethered him to the boat or by grabbing the boat's rigging. Worst...
Goodbye Backyards. Manry had dreamed of sailing the Atlantic ever since he first heard about open-ocean sailing as a small boy in India, where his father was a Presbyterian missionary. He bought the 36-year-old Tinker-belle six years ago for $250, completely rebuilt her, taught himself navigation, and practiced long-distance sailing on Lake Erie. "There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard," he told his wife...