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MOSQUITO BOAT
DESIGNER
LEARNED EARLY
Miami. Fla. — When Dair
N. Long was 13 years old
he moved from his birth
place of Des Moines, Iowa
fo Los Angeles and became
.nterested in boots.
Now, at 26. this shy,
blond younster is the de
signing genius behind
those tough mosquito boats
a Miami firm is building.
Long is quick to deny
any label of 'child prodigy
or youthful genius. But at
15 he designed and built an
eight-foot radio-controlled
submarine which “worked
fairly well at short rang
es”; a year later he design
eel a 12-foot sailboat, and
before he was 22 he won
the Southern California
Yachting association’s con
test with his plans for a
racing dinghy.
Champion Sailor
Long won the S.C.Y.A.’s
Pacific coast sailing eham
oionshin and kept design
! ing boats. He studied engin
coring at the University of
California and completed
his course in naval archi
tecture at Michigan. In
1938 he entered a contest
sponsored by the navy for
: a motor torpedo boat de
sign.
Long didn’t win it. but
certain features of his
plans received favorable
comment. Later he was
supervising architect on
t he construction of the first
two-motor torpedo b;> 0,
built during the present de
tense program.
Scale Models Tested
! Long’s working every
day now — and a good
many nights — on the de
sign of a proposed torpedo
I boat for the navy.
Part of a naval archi
I tect’s work is done with
| scale models to determine
how certain features of a ,
boat will affect its speed or
'seaworthiness. Long some
j times takes two slightly
different models and tows
them together over Bis
cavne bay to see how each <
i behaves.
Long confesses that dc-!
spite his present succe.-sful
work with power boats,
sailing and sailboat design
ing still are his first loves. '
Flying a plane comes next..
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SHE OUCHT TO KNOW—As a former beauty contest winner, "Miss California of 1910"
L bhirlee Patterson picked some other beauties in a "Miss 1912" contest at Venice, Calif.
T W O CHAMPION S—Companion piece for the girl in a
chalk white British wool suit designed by Muriel Bellamy Is the
haughty white poodle, who has his eye on the annual Westminster
Kennel club show, to be held in New York City.
C H O I C E—‘'The person to
whom I would most enjoy tollifi:
a bedtime story"—is I.oretta
Young, movie aelress. So voted
the male seniors of 1942 elass at
Columbia university, New York.
Why Blondes Like Blue
Ask a blonde what her
favorite color is and it’s 10
to 1 she’ll tell you “blue.”
Ask a brunette and her an
swer will probably be reel.
Why? Well, because they
were born that way. That’s
the story of an eminent
American psychologist.
I He explains that blondes
are descended from ances
tors who originally lived
in regions a long way from
the equator. In these lands
there is a predominant
blue light reflected from
the sky.
Such light, rich in ultra
violet, causes a pigmenta
tion on the retina termed,
incorrectly, “greensighted
ness.” Thus, according to
the psychologist the blonde
forever after prefers blue.
But brunettes are descend
ed from ancestors dwelling
in more tropical climes and
here infra-red and heat
rays are predominant and
cause a pigmenation on the
retina termed “redsighted
ness.” And brunettes, as a
rule, prefer red.
HEADS ACROSS THE TABLE —For one brief moment Iris Marshall (left) and Jerri
Lowe, New Yorkers, let attention wander from their bonanza card game to that taffy colored straighi
on straw beret with which chic Norma Richter (right) heads into sprint. Just as miilincry-wlse ara
the taffeta bonnet of the Renoir school, and the while straw dashed with swallows on a green veil.
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IN THE PINK —Broun and pink arc combined happily in
this ncu chapeau worn by Peggy Diggins of the movies. IPs smart
with a large rose and fine brown veiling, and can lift one's spirits
during these in-between season days.
RACCOON COES TOP HA T—As smart in the eve
ning as It's wearable in daytime is this 34-inch raccoon cape taken
into the opera style bracket by Designer Boris Bregcr. It's being
worn by Natalie Bodanya of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.