Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anybody with a bank account and sailing experience can sail the Pacific next summer according to Brice Sumner '53, who plans to pilot a 35-foot sailboat from Nagoya, Japan, to San Francisco...
...mere sustained effort of conversation fatigues Harold. He simply cannot spare his energy talking to people." For relaxation on weekends in Westhampton, N.Y., the judge has been rereading all of Dickens ("So far removed from the trial"), playing golf, billiards, and going out in his boat to watch the sailboat races...
...fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a boy who drowned off Miami trying to save his sailboat...
...other hand, Scullay, perhaps the best all-around sailor on the Crimson team, is new to dinghy competition. A past champion in the bigger One-Ten sailboat class, Scullay adapted himself to the dinghy a year ago last fall and he captured the freshman intercollegiate championship...
...widower with three children, Percy likes to race his sailboat on Lake Michigan, take home movies, and play golf. He is also working towards a law degree at night school ("a businessman can't safely make a move today without consulting a lawyer"), as part of the job of keeping Bell & Howell growing. Says Percy: "No company can stand still. We set our sights always a little ahead of what we think we can reach...