Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mosbacher had taken the run-of-the-drawing-board yawl, Callooh, designed by Phil Rhodes, and driven her to apparent victory in the annual 184-mile Miami-to-Nassau race. Then they discovered that Mosbacher had not won after all. Tardily, the race committee determined that the winner on corrected time was a 40-ft., fiber-glass-hulled yawl named Rhubarb. Not only that, but Rhubarb's sister ship, Southern Star II, was third. Both brand new, the two boats were the work of 39-year-old William H. Tripp Jr.-a new designer who is currently the talk...
...Winner. The only things Smitty loves as much as boxers are horses. "Give me the big horse and the big fighter," he cries. Smitty bought his first horse in 1947 with $700-a no-good hayburner named Roscoe Goose. In the next ten years he had more than a dozen others, none of them first-rate until, in late 1957, he bought Hillsdale for $25,000. No one was impressed. Two of Smitty's friends turned down the chance to buy a share in the horse. Jockey Eddie Arcaro politely declined the chance to ride him. But here...
Years Ahead. P-B's success is tied to one man. President Walter Heber Wheeler. 61. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Walter Wheeler was an All-Eastern football tackle at Harvard in 1916, a subchaser skipper and Navy Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...
...Cushing: "Don't think you are going to parlay one ski lift into an Olympic Game." Even a U.S. delegate sneered: "Who's going to vote for you? I'm not." Austria's Innsbruck was Squaw's chief competitor, and seemed a sure winner when one of the delegates charged that Squaw was totally unprepared to stage an Olympics, furthermore should be disqualified because it was not a town (it still is not). Summoned to the meeting room for an explanation, Cushing turned on the charm. There should be no fears about readying an Olympic...