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Samuel Eliot Morison, 52, is a Harvard professor of history, Boston-born, an authority on clipper ships and Yankee seamen, author of an eloquent tribute to seafarers in The Maritime History of Massachusetts, an amateur yachtsman who for 40 years has been sailing small boats along the New England coast...
Tactful Art Director Charles Coiner of N. W. Ayer (Dole advertising agency) took a hand, spouted to Painter O'Keeffe about the beauty of pineapples in bud, urged her to give the pineapple a break. He phoned Honolulu, had a budding plant put aboard the Clipper. Thirty-six hours later the plant was delivered to the O'Keeffe studio in Manhattan. "It's beautiful. I never knew that," exclaimed Artist O'Keeffe. "It's made up of long green blades and the pineapple grows in the centre of them." She promptly painted it, and Dole...
...their blockade. To plug it, they had stopped U. S. ships on the high seas (the same sort of thing that brought on the War of 1812), had seized and opened U. S. mails (a criminal offense). They had even confiscated a ton of air mail from the American Clipper as it landed in Bermuda. Explained a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London: "If it was generally known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim was that of 25,000 packages examined in three...
...make sure the point stuck, next day British authorities in Bermuda dragged sacks of mail from a transatlantic Clipper, began putting it through a thoroughgoing examination. When the Clipper took off for the Azores 24 hours later, more than a ton of mail was still in the hands of the censors. All Secretary of State Cordell Hull could think of to do about this was to hint that the Clippers might stop calling at Bermuda, fly directly from the U. S. to the Azores, as they did before war broke...
...tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness. Based on a complicated device used for years on America's Cup Defenders, the popular Hazard comes to merer skippers at $25. Outstanding motor yacht: a 57-foot, superluxurious, poly-gadgeted Elco cruiser with clipper bow, flying bridge, streamlined superstructure, berthing a party of six, crew of two. Price...