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...undergraduate Olympic hopefuls will enter his semi-final try-outs next Saturday at Marblehead for the Monotype or Finn Class selection on the U.S. Sailing team. Tommy Townsend, a former Marblehead 110 champion, will face a field of 12 in Fireflies with the winner earning the right to represent the NEISA in the Olympic finals at Marion, Mass., on June 12-17. Strong winds this weekend could eliminate Townsend early in the competition, however, since he is extremely light (150 lbs.) for this class. The Melbourne Olympic yachting games will be held next November on Port Philip...
John Deknatel, and Thomas Townsend will sail Monotype or Finn Class boats in a preliminary Olympic Trial at M.I.T. on Saturday. The 14 leading skippers will be invited to join nine other men, picked on their past records in the final New England trial on April 7 and 8 in Marion, Mass. The sailors will race single-handed in M.I.T. dinghies...
...BLACK AND THE RED, by Elliot Paul (277 pp.; Random House; $2.75), is a Homer Evans mystery by the author of The Mysterious Mickey Finn and Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre. It is for longtime Elliot Paul fans only; latecomers who are merely looking for a story are likely to bog down in the aggressive whimsy and the interminable dissertations on art, sex and French cooking...
Evelyn is one of a dozen Corner cousins, ranging in age from just-walking to just-wedding, who spend summers together on the west coast of Ireland. Huck Finn himself would like the way the Corners grow. "We shrieked together in joyful terror . . . Black bilge water, floating dirt and oil and fish scales had spurted through the [boat's] gratings, and into this we slid." "Harry wore [an old cavalry] sabre, but not before I had nearly killed him with it by a blow which might have split his skull...
Pardon for Jack. On the inaugural train to Washington, it was just like Tad to bait dignitaries with the query "Do you want to see Old Abe?" and then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy...