Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of the show &and some of the contributing artists &-in sharp rebuttal. The hammer & sickle on the sails, it turned out, was really just a large C (for clipper) with an I (for island) drawn through i &the symbol for the Island Clipper class. The red hue was not a forest fire, said Artist Gerald Campbell, but a symbol of birth. When Critic Harby muttered something under his breath at that, Artist Campbell rapped back: "I won't stand for this ... I spent two years in the Army fighting for freedom of expression...
...principles of thought which sent our clipper ships around the world in spite of the pirates of Barbary, which put Perry into Nippon and John Paul Jones into the Russian Navy! More power to you! Let's wake up and quit thinking in terms of little loops!"-Philip R. White of Willow Grove...
...title story, Author Paterson's narrator potters about in a house full of 19th Century oil paintings and sailing-ship logs. He pieces together the faded fragments of how a gingery Scots lass, "imperious as any queen," commanded a clipper ship a hundred years ago and won little but disdain for her courage. In another story, a stranger in a bar tells a writer about a Spanish matador whose wife's treachery and infidelity drove him out of the bull ring and into exile. Those sufficiently versed in trick endings may arrive at the conclusion before the author...
...Shut off the last trickle of goods to Red China and Manchuria, forcing some already-loaded ships to discharge cargo. The order was specifically worded to catch four ships now at sea, including the Isbrandtsen line's Flying Clipper, reported heading for Tientsin with a cargo of steel, tin plate and pipe...
ABOARD PLANE OVER THE BAHAMAS, Oct. 25--Rumin Coak, hollowchested, sunken-eyed, eight-feet zombie from the mystic voodooland of Haiti, has agreed to replace Hu Flung Hucy ocC as CRIMSON prognosticator. He is already flying north with us, alongside this DC-4 clipper...