Robert Manry After Solo Atlantic Ocean Crossing Article

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Our Bob Manry made it! I
His unprecedented voyage across the Atlan-   | -o£- a ship has kept his T.^ake. i-
tic in a tiny slip-
County community agog the whole summer.
When the red - sailed Tinkerbelle went un¬ sighted for a week, was there anyone who wasn't-worried? With a man and boat squarely in the path of a gale, it looked especially grim.
VVELL. ALin)F~US —^hfcfflJgfafafc^aHJe
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.uled t^w fantastic seamanship.   .,^
Our Bob Manry. Yes, we claim him, too. "The rest of the world«— not just Willowick, tnr Cleveland, or its newspapers and television stations — has a piece of him, also. If you have had the  impression  that  only northeastern Ohio and a little seaport in England were interested in Manry's exploits, please be disabused right now.
The man has been front - page international news fo'   weeks.
Editor & Publisher, the weekly trade magazine- of the newspaper business, recently termed the Maiiry saga the best summer  story in yeais.
WHAT COULD HA'VE BEEN more   gripping,   yet
more sustaineit. over a long period-,of-^jyaaifJIjaB the-
daily reports <tn his progress — fn^-^ il|#4P4WN' tHh"-
sences from the seeking eyes of ^'
Those days of futile search fo
of  gloom, over all  of  us.
.After   continuous   fare   of  esqal^ttnf'trustrafion'"
ViPt Nam, of civil rights strifei jn^iinting to a
where more American hves were lost in one day on
the streets ol Los Angeles than jn any single day of
Southeast Asian jungle warfare, we looked forward to
those happy heSjllmes on Manry's position.
And now the Manry story has culminated In the
happiest headline of all: he made it. He conquered the
: ocean alone.
Alone?  Only in the technical sense. .All  the  ".\orld  sailed  with him  in* the  age  - old ':  st,-i,ggle  of man against  the sea.
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