Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaches and in the barrooms of the South Pacific, endless speculations continue but no man has yet offered a convincing explanation of why Dusty Miller and the 24 souls he carried aboard the twin-screw cabin cruiser Joyita two months ago should have disappeared without trace...
Prince Tungi of Tonga believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...
...fine afternoon in December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was picked up heading westward in the South Atlantic under jib and fore-topsail, her galley table set for dinner, and not one soul aboard. Why her master, Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his crew and his passengers-ten in all-should have deserted their ship in midocean is still the sea's most taunting mystery...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship, with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...martinis, theorized that the reason he had been found asleep on a neighbor's davenport was that "somebody must have put something in my drinks." As the Twig Is Bent. In Miami, ex-Seabee Francis Osborn, 26, spotted a bulldozer parked near a street-repair job, climbed aboard and happily chased ten policemen about the city streets, explained testily as he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon: "I just wanted to see if I could still run one." If Thy Brother Offend Thee. In Terre Haute, Ind., Frederick F. Wendholt, Bible salesman for the House of Harmony...