Word: addison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the crew in addition to Nathanson are Tim Brown, John Roosevelt, Addison Closson, Nick Baker, Fred Hoppin, Phil Tierney, and J. Carter Brown. Three of the sailors are sophomores...
...Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers" who boomed land prices as high as $17,000 per frontage foot with dreams of billion-dollar cities, although they sometimes could not even afford the paper to plan them...
Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death...
...executor of estates and guardian of minors. Yet he was a gambler. He gambled at cards and on horses; his project to drain the Dismal Swamp (it is only partly drained to this day) was in a line of wild American land speculation that did not end with Addison Mizner at Boca Raton. Washington gambled at war: with his neck, when he took up arms against the king, and with his army, in bold flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned...
George Robertson and Jim Nathanson will be the Crimson's two skippers. Addison Closon will serve as Robertson's crew, while Dave Cabot assists Nathanson...