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...Mayflower's 102 passengers are separatists from the Church of England, fleeing King James I's persecution. Even those refugees emerge as an earthy, red-blooded lot. The rest of the voyagers are as rowdy a band of adventurers and vagabonds as ever set sail. Aboard is a young cooper named John Alden (played by Van Johnson), who keeps the passengers' whisky and beer barrels in repair. Captain Myles Standish is below-decks most of the time; Researcher Deutsch decided that Standish was already married and probably not courting Priscilla Mullins...
...Crimson, defending the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup which it won last year, will be represented in Division A by veteran Johnny Bishop, with Butch Horner as crew. Charlie Hoppin will sail Division B on Saturday, crewed by Tim Brown, and Jimmy Nathanson will relieve Hoppin for Sunday's sailing, with Dean Howells his crew...
...Crimson sailing fans will get their last chance of the spring to see the varsity sailing team in a major meet when three skippers will sail on the Charles in the New England Sailing Association's Spring Regatta this weekend...
...Sailing is of course one of springtime's major sports. Most people haven't got a private yacht moored at Marblehead or even a battered dinghy hidden in some cove along the Charles, but enthusiasts can procure membership in the Harvard Yacht Club for the paltry sum of five dollars. After passing a boat-handling test, the expert can sail to his heart's content almost any afternoon from the M.I.T. boathouse, thanks to an agreement whereby Harvard men may use Tech's dinghies...
Besides their classroom work during the school year, all R.O.T.C. members now have to attend camp or make a cruise during at least one of the three summers between college terms. The naval "regulars" sail abroad all three vacations, while the other groups spend only a few weeks in training somewhere in the U.S. or North American waters...