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Robert D. Crane '49 and Frederick I. Ordway '49 will embark for Jibuti, French Somaliland, this afternoon in an UNRRA cattleboat, they announced yesterday before leaving for Baltimore to pick up the ship. From Jibuti, the peripatetic duo plans to proceed to Addis Ababa, and thence south into Central Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nomadic Duo Leaves On African Adventure | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...vagabonded all over Europe, speaks four languages fluently and has never been known to exhibit any signs of embarrassment. Every year he goes abroad in a cattleboat and returns in the Imperial Suite of the Bremen with Charles Lindbergh and Gene Tunney. He knows his James Joyce and can quote Millay by the hour. Above all, he is always courteous, correct, and an extremely presentable young gentleman, despite the fact that he has usually imbibed more imported grade A spirits than Bismarck could have consumed in his halcyon days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENUS HARVARDIENSIS | 1/29/1930 | See Source »

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