Word: carlsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against better Ivy teams the Crimson will have to settle down and get some runs the hard way; Ray Carlsen of Yale won't walk ten men the List did in four and two thirds innings. Still, it was the team's fourth straight win, and not too much trouble...
Captain Kurt Carlsen, a 1952 hero for sticking to the last on the sinking Flying Enterprise II, bobbed up in the news again. His new Flying Enterprise smacked its 8,000 tons into the 7,000-ton British freighter Canara while tugs were nudging her toward a berth in Bombay Harbor, India. Damage to the Canara was "extensive," but the Enterprise came off with a mere five-foot gash above the water line. "I feel heartbroken," moaned Carlsen. "If there's one man in the world who does not want anything to happen to the Flying Enterprise...
Coming to the U.S. in 1914, "H. I." built up the nation's largest independent cargo fleet (16 owned, 40 to 70 chartered vessels), beat out competitors by undercutting their rates, hiring tough, experienced captains (e.g., the Flying Enterprise's Henrik Kurt Carlsen), and sending his ships wherever profit beckoned. His lone-wolf ventures often provoked international incidents, State Department migraine; before and during the Korean...
Back in his native Denmark, Captain Kurt Carlsen went aboard the royal yacht Dannebrog for a half-hour chat with King Frederik IX. Commented Carlsen: "It was a simple meeting between two sailors...
...Atlanta, on his way to Mobile to take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...