Word: boatman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Amelia Eden Borelli, 26, Sir Anthony's niece, who ran off to the Italian island of Ischia last year to marry a $34-a-week ferryboat engineer, and Boatman Giovanni Borelli, 30: a daughter; in London, where the couple is visiting. Name: Chaira Maria. Weight...
Behind a tiny row house in Baltimore, a boatman scours his homemade runabout with steel wool, oblivious to neighborly wisecracks ("Where you gonna get two of every animal, Henry?"). At Cleveland's Yachting Club, a big woman in small slacks mounts the ladder of a cruiser, hoists a heavy box of tools, inches into the cabin to repair the head...
...collected blisters on my bottom because I wouldn't stay away from the water." After a stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard-built, potbellied boat called the Bonita in Bay Head, N.J., put my mother, father and girl friend on board, and headed for Miami. The girl got off in Maryland, but we made it to Miami." In those days "the water in the bay was gin-clear...
When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands. Today, another generation of Klebergs run the Texas kingdom that has spread far beyond the adventurous boatman's dreams. The 890,000 Texas acres are supplemented by pastures in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; Santa Gertrudis cattle are raised in Cuba, Australia and Brazil. Rare new grasses are cultivated on White Horse Desert, and King Ranch thoroughbreds race on the world's finest tracks...
...long chronicle of success seems nourished still by the selfish vitality of the black-bearded boatman. In the end even the friendly painter of this purple-tinted prose portrait almost admits that Richard King was, after all, a magnificent old s.o.b. "The ranch on the Santa Gertrudis could not have been wrested from the Wild Horse Desert by a courtly display of pleasant intention," says Author Tom Lea. "It was rough. It was no less honorable. It demanded a rough and honorable...