Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Career. Until 1942 Faure practiced law, used his criminal cases as background for a series of detective stories written under the pen name of Edgar Sanday. The Faures caught the last boat to leave Vichy France for North Africa, where Edgar joined General de Gaulle. After liberation he was put in a financial job by Mendès, then Minister of National Economy. A typical Faure legend has it that he committed the 1,000-page tax catalogue to memory in four days, amazed the Assembly by answering questions on a complex tax proposal for two hours without preparation...
...Venezuela goes into its fifth year under Pérez Jiménez, many of the other passengers on the oil-powered dreamboat profess to admire the skipper's hard-fisted style of command. "Don't rock the boat," say prosperous U.S. businessmen, happily noting the political quiet, record oil production, boom-time construction and the rising standard of living (70% up in the last decade). But the advice is given so often as to reflect at least a subconscious awareness that the boat may be somewhat unseaworthy. Sample weaknesses...
...direct bearing on Mrs. Garrett's talk, I remember one time I was fishing off the Florida Keys. Things had been slow all day and the Captain was cracking open his second point of Four Roses. Suddenly, what looked like a large island loomed up close behind the boat, and, in a summary fashion, smacked the teaser and then the bait. Momentarily surprised, the Captain set down his bottle and shouted, "Give him plenty of line!" This I did, but the island-like serpent took all my new nylon line and all my backing, despite the fact that the star...
Congratulations on the fine article [Jan. 31] on Grace Kelly. I am very glad to know she has a mind of her own as far as her career and the publicity involved are concerned. Hollywood has miscast and ruined Greer Garson . . . Deborah Kerr will probably be in the same boat soon . . . and Audrey Hepburn will probably be playing in something called The Eleanor Roosevelt Story before long. But it looks as if Miss K can take care of herself...
...Nassau, B.W.I., more than 48 hours after leaving Miami, the 39-ft. yawl Hoot Mon (skippered by Lockwood Pirie, a reformed, Star-boat sailor) drifted across the finish line in the slowest Miami-Nassau race on record and won that blue-water championship for the second year running...