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Manhattan Real Estate Man Walter S. Gubelmann, Commodore Harold Vanderbilt, Briggs Cunningham and 28 top-notch yachtsmen. Skipper: Eric Ridder, 45, who has raced to more than a dozen ocean victories as captain of Gubel-mann's famed yawl Windigo and has chosen a crew seasoned with Windigo sailors. They have already been training for six weeks on an old twelve rebuilt to match Constellation's deck layout...
...camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...
More terrifying than the Windigo to some of the mountaineers is a 5-ft. wisp of a woman who in her childhood decided that she would "bring religion" to the cabins in the hills. Now a grey-haired 42, Jessie Hyde was brought up in a brick house on her father's 200-acre farm. At ten she "heard God's voice clearly calling me." At 14 she held revival meetings in a schoolhouse. A few years later she began trudging the hills as a determined reformer...
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