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Stars. Most popular of international racing yachts, Star boats are 22 ft. long, cost around $1,500, are descended from a seafaring line of Sharpies used for gathering oysters on Long Island Sound a hundred years ago. Winner last week was Stanley Ogilvy's Jay, a boat that is likely to compete in the International championship, No. 1 event for Star boats the world over, to be held off San Diego in September...
...Metres. Almost twice the length of Stars and a quarter that of America's Cup yachts, six-metre boats are a Scandinavian specialty, cost about $8,000, first appeared in the U. S. in 1923. Winner last week was Briggs Cunningham's Fun, which won the series by just one point from George Nichols' Goose. Both will this week compete in the tryouts for the No. 1 international event for six-metre boats: the Scandinavian Gold Cup race to be held off Oyster Bay next month...
...place: Manhattan's U. S. Assay Office. The strikers: A. F. of L. armored-car guards, who wanted to ride (at union pay) with U. S. Coast Guardsmen stationed on trucks hauling silver bullion to West Point, N.Y. (TIME, July 11). The winner: Contractor Peter James Malley Jr., who continued to haul U. S. silver under U. S. gun & guard...
After eight hours of shooting, interspersed with visits to a nearby Bierstuben, 62-year-old Herman Mehner, bald-headed iron worker, was crowned king. Unique even in its distribution of prizes, Vogelschiessen winner is really a loser. In addition to filling the ten-beer boot, King Mehner, like his predecessors, was compelled to give a banquet for all the members of the Verein...
Alison's House (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Susan Glaspell's 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner in condensed revival...