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...Britain, Cowes Week is to yachtsmen what Ascot is to the horsy set. Last week hundreds of sleek racing craft, white and scarlet sails shining in the sun, gathered on the Medina estuary at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for one of Britain's biggest regattas since King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown...
This irked one of the West Coast's most reputable dealers, burly, bearded Frank Perls of Beverly Hills. Perls first warned Goldenberg. got some "dirty words" for his pains. Then Perls turned to the district attorney's office, rounded up such experts as John Rewald and Frederick Wight to testify at Goldenberg's trial. Last week Dealer Perls won his point. Found guilty of violating California's business and professional code, Dealer Goldenberg faces up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. It was the first conviction of an art-fake peddler...
...wouldn't make sense for the word "hooliganism," as used by the Russians, to derive from Happy Hooligan of a long-ago U.S. comic strip [TIME, Nov. 8]. Happy was a harmless wight who was always being socked, never did any socking. Doesn't the word really come from a family of notorious ruffians, active in London at the end of the last century, named Hoolihan or Hooligan...
Bill Morris, who a year ago captained the Harvard freshmen to victory, overcame last week's virus attack to finish sixth, four seconds behind Beck's 25:47. Princeton's Bill Mather and Al Kitchell were seventh and eighth, followed by Yale's Henry Wight...
Behind Seiff, Yale will try to win with George Fouldes, Bob Schaller, Marty Duckworth, and Harry Wight. In addition to Fordham, the Elis have also lost to Cornell and Dartmouth. The only one of these three that the Crimson has faced was Dartmouth...