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Skipper John Bishop turned in come brilliant upwind sailing over the weekend, but even his superlative performance was not enough to prevent Williams from edging the varsity sailors, 30 to 19 1/4 in the McMillan Cup regatta at Annapolis...
...Upwind First. Among the novices was 13-year-old Toni Monetti, a tiny (4 ft. 8 in., 80 Ibs.), fluffy-haired blonde who owns no boat and had never tried for the Scovill Cup before. She borrowed a friend's boat, the Bijope, and with her crew (two 14-year-old boys), she managed to sail her way into the five-boat championships...
...signal gun for the first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat...
Joan isn't much good at keeping her mind on her business; whenever a man stands upwind from her, she tends to go buttery-eyed (a trick for which Miss Caulfield has a pretty talent). Veronica has to be coldhearted enough for both of them; but as it turns out, she is vulnerable, too. Both fall for an earnest, shabby oaf (well played by George Reeves) who dreams of modernizing his community with a power plant. Both help raise the money which will make his dream come true. And both plan to make off with it, love...
...biggest trouble was the weather over Japan. At 30,000 feet the wind often blew 200 miles an hour. This meant that the B-29s had to drop their bombs while traveling upwind at a ground speed of 50 or 100 m.p.h. (making fat targets for fighters and ack-ack) or downwind at 500 m.p.h. with doubtful accuracy or no accuracy at all. Japanese fighters apparently could go as high as the B-29s could-and their suicidal pilots did not hesitate to ram the big planes...