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...businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan's enterprises seem to be almost an annual affair. Last spring, for example, he dreamed up a building project for the Cambridge Common. All went well for him, in spite...
...that her sails can be set higher to take advantage of the steadier breezes that blow well above the water's surface. "A kind of tax-free device, you might call it," says Sir Frank Packer, head of the three-man syndicate that built Gretel. Though U.S. yachtsmen have reservations about Gretel's design-some thought her "long-ended," said her fore-and-aft overhang might make her hobbyhorse in a brisk breeze-they conceded that the trim Australian boat might well be the toughest challenger...
...ship, wrote Jarrell, lay 15 miles off Fire Island, awash in millionaire yachtsmen, bubbly flappers, lush chorines, and "revels de luxe." His reporting was meticulous: the cutlery and napery, he wrote, bore the name of "the Friedrich der Grosse, a former North German Lloyd liner." One redhead stood on the dance floor shouting: "This is an epic lark...
...Schell meet, skippers Ford and Lehmann paced the Crimson yachtsmen to an impressive 23-point lead during the first day of competition. The pair each had two firsts, two seconds, one fourth, and one fifth Saturday, and tied for top individual honors...
Crimson sailors had no trouble with the Coast Guard, the pre-series favorite but second place finisher. Harvard out-sailed the Coast Guard yachtsmen in both races by a 34 1/4 to 26 score...