Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been supposed that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...
...years after Columbus discovered America, Niccolo Machiavelli, younger son of an impoverished middle-class family of Florence, became a clerk in its government. For 14 years he sorted ambassadors' reports, paid secret agents, inspected fortresses and accounts. Sometimes the Signory sent Machiavelli on diplomatic missions. At the Vatican he began his firsthand study of power politics under such masters as Pope Alexander Borgia and his alleged son Cesare. Cesare Borgia was Machiavelli's model for the Prince...
...years ago Professor Morison decided to try to find out more about Columbus than he could in libraries. He had discovered that nearly all writers about Columbus were scholars ignorant of navigation, that they disagreed about whether he was history's greatest navigator or a landlubber. The professor went to the West Indies, sailed among the Lesser Antilles in a yawl, checking up on the western end of Columbus' second voyage. Last .year Professor Morison retraced part of Columbus' first voyage in a ten-day cruise around Haiti, claimed to have found the site of Navidad, first...
...eager as a dog on the scent, the professor returned to Harvard, wrote in the Alumni Bulletin that if any generous alumnus provided him with a suitable boat, he would be glad to pilot the donor over Columbus' whole route. Alumni and three foundations soon gave him a boat, sails, oils, wines, a surgical kit, heraldic designs and flags. When he sailed this week in his Capitana (named for the flagship of Columbus' third voyage), he had a few items that Columbus lacked: an auxiliary Diesel engine, a direction finder, a two-way radio set. Professor Morison headed...
After retracing part of Columbus' first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go to Honduras to pick up his fourth voyage. They expect to end their expedition in Haiti, February...