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Upwind First. Among the novices was 13-year-old Toni Monetti, a tiny (4 ft. 8 in., 80 Ibs.), fluffy-haired blonde who owns no boat and had never tried for the Scovill Cup before. She borrowed a friend's boat, the Bijope, and with her crew (two 14-year-old boys), she managed to sail her way into the five-boat championships...
...signal gun for the first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat...
Champagne Later. Despite her skilled sailing, Toni was a bit surprised that she won. Her explanation to reporters, after a moment of solemn reflection: "I guess I had a good crew." But not until she was given a dunking in the Sound, a ritual for winners, did she feel like a champion...
...Toni has been sailing ever since her father, Arnold E. Monetti, Manhassat Bay's commodore, bought an Atlantic class (30-ft.) sloop nine years ago. Nobody taught her to sail: "I just learned how by doing it." A ninth-grader, Toni hopes to become an artist because "you can't make a living out of sailing." But, like most of her fellow midgets, she fully intends to keep on racing, too. When she reaches 18, Toni will sail in women's class events; the women's champion of the Sound is feted each year with...
When it bought the Toni home permanent wave slightly more than two years ago, Gillette Safety Razor Co. paid plenty for its new investment. The total: $20 million to Toni's Yale-bred, back-slapping Owner Richard Neison Wishbone Harris (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948), of which $12 million was cash. (The rest was to be paid out of Toni profits.) But the deal certainly gave Gillette's profits a well-barbered look. Last week Gillette President J. P. (for Joseph Peter) Spang Jr. announced that in 26 months Gillette had earned $8 million after taxes on Toni. With...