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Between England's mainland and the Isle of Wight stretches a yachtsman's nightmare. Cowes Road abounds in treacherous currents, hidden reefs and fickle winds. There, last week, three American and three British six-meter racing yachts caught the breeze in the race for the British-American Cup, a junior-sized edition of the America's Cup (won last in 1937 when the U.S.'s sloop Ranger handily beat England's Endeavour II in four straight races...
With the kind of pitching the Red Sox have been getting, the Yankees need not give up. The earth-shaking purchase of Rae Scarborough and Bill Wight from Chicago has produced three wins and seven losses so far. Ellis Kinder has been miserable, and only Mel Parnell, Willard Nixon, and Chuck Stobbs have been adequate...
...practice because he "would rather write fiction on a crust than have the best practice in Harley Street," eventually turned out some 50 novels, for 30 years was one of the most popular purveyors of old-fashioned romance (The Blue Lagoon; An American at Oxford); on the Isle of Wight, where he had settled down after leaving his native Dublin...
...stuff to make everybody forget the 1927 Yankees, but they also have the ability to repeat their inadequate performances of the last four years Strong at every position but catcher, they are deep as well. The pitching should be better than last year with the purchase of Bill Wight, but Parnell and Scarborough are question marks and the rest is mediocre...
...Wight, who has just returned from two years in Malaya, will speak about Britain's commitments in the Far East and their importance to the Western Powers. Other topics to be discussed include Korea, Malaya, the importance of Indo-China in the general Allied defense plan, and integration and liaison with other Allied forces...