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...More Raw Fish. On appeal to the local Civil Service Commission, Citizen Kane was returned to limited duty, put on medical probation for a year, and sternly ordered to trim down to 222 lbs. before the year was up. While all Hawaii looked on, fascinated, Peter went on a diet...
...Taking time out from his racing cars, Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham, flying the burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club on his trim sloop Spindrift, won the National Atlantic Class sailing championship at the Sea Cliff (L.I.) Yacht Club. Second: Cunningham's clubmate Hoyt Perry. Third: Novelist John (The Watt) Hersey...
...buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought to justice." The witness pointed across the courtroom to the trim and carefully uniformed Sergeant Gallagher: "That...
Although he tried his hand at oceangoing yachts, notably his own Vigilant (1930), Fox's best designs were sailing dinghies and small, trim sloops. In 1928 he designed the Avenger, an "International Fourteen" dinghy with a planing hull that made it a sure winner before the wind. In 57 starts. Avenger collected 52 firsts, two seconds and three thirds...
...aircraft plant in southern France last week, production was being stepped up on a trim, twin-jet plane with a graceful butterfly tail. The plane was France's Magister, a light, two-place trainer (made by Etablissements Fouga) that can hit 450 m.p.h., perform most of the maneuvers of heavier, more expensive combat cratt. The French air force has ordered 100 of the new Magisters; last week the hard-to-please NATO training committee was also recommending the plane to West Germany and other NATO nations as the standard basic trainer for fledgling jet pilots...