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...mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president of the Fuller Brush Co. He had won the slowest Bermuda race since the first race 40 years...
...opponents tried to brush him off as a "junior G-man," got sidetracked in feuds of their own. When election day came, Michigan voters swept him into the nomination with a 50,000 lead over his nearest rival. Their 3-to-1 majority over Democrats voting the same day made Kim Sigler a good bet to beat the Democrats' former Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner to the state house in the fall...
McDermand makes it sound worth going after. He writes of lonely, bone-chilling nights, of the joys of casting, and of trout for breakfast. Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast. Some of the rock-bound lakes have names like Evolution, some have no names, some have no fish. But mostly they are chockfull of golden trout dying of old age for lack of fishermen...
Jean Lurçat returned from World War I with a mangled hand. At first he could not hold a brush, so his mother got him interested in gros point embroidery. In that way he acquired an interest in cloth art which lasted even after his hand improved and he was able to go back to painting...
Early this week Geist's Allis-Chalmers resumed negotiations with the C.I.O. But Leon Clausen only growled and glowered from the brush. The U.S., which has seized a mail-order house, oil fields, meat packers, coal mines and railroads got ready to seize Clausen's Case...