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...office is also located in Langdell Hall, behind several stacks of law books on the third floor. He claims that his office, adorned with paintings of clipper ships in Boston Harbor and Georgetown, is "the biggest, except for the dean...
America's love of instantaneousness probably stemmed from its rush to conquer great distances, at first with the pony express and clipper ships, later with microwaves and satellites. In the consumer marketplace, speediness became an ever stronger selling point. The first mass-marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote...
...urging of Army Buddy Platt, Matix moved down to Miami, where the two transplanted Midwesterners founded their own tree-trimming and lawn-care company, the Yankee Clipper. Then, about a year after Patty Matix's death, Platt's wife Regina was killed by a shotgun blast. Her death was ruled a suicide...
...even Kwong, the famous China Clipper, has a Crimson tie of his own--his son, Brad, captained the '84-'85 Harvard men's hockey squad...
United will need approval from the Transportation Department and President Reagan before it can fly Pan Am's routes. That regulatory process could take up to eight months. And while their opinion will not count in the final decision, saddened aviation buffs will undoubtedly decry the loss of the Clipper routes that Pan Am possessed...