Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aruba passed under the tip of India, the Finnish crew grumbled a strike threat if the ship continued to sail on into "dangerous waters." They demanded that she put in at Ceylon. Gunnar Damstroem, manager of the Re-Be Shipping Co.. which owns the vessel, replied with a Columbus-like "Sail on!" At least, he instructed the Aruba's captain by radio to keep the ship on the open ocean and out of harm's way as long as the crew would permit. Leaving Ceylon behind without putting in to port, the Aruba sailed...
...case came from its star witness, prim Marie Natvig. In October Mrs. Natvig held the stand for 13 days, and under questioning by FCC Attorney Walter R. Powell Jr., told luridly and convincingly of meeting "Comrade Lamb" at a Communist Party gathering. The two discussed Communism in a Columbus, O. bistro named the Purple Cow, she swore, and ended the discussion in a hotel room, where she committed her "first act of infidelity." Three months later the grey-haired grandmother recanted. On the stand Mrs. Natvig said that she had been "brainwashed" and forced to lie about Lamb...
...care for Wiley's attitude let it be known that they might try to beat him in the 1956 primary. Last week, the primary 18 months away, Wiley unexpectedly took a place at the speakers' table at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Knights of Columbus of Kenosha, Wis. When Senator and Mrs. McCarthy arrived, to the wild cheers of the 450 diners, Wiley walked all the way across the platform to the other end of the table to pump McCarthy's hand. Said wily Wiley: "Joe and I have never had an altercation. He goes...
...Knights of Columbus Athletic Meet in Madison Square Garden, Defending Champion Mai Whitfield was nosed out by Villanova Alumnus Joe Gaffney in the 600-yd. run, and another ex-titleholder proved a disappointment even while winning. Miler Wes Santee lazed home in 4:10.4, one of the slowest times of the winter season...
CONQUEST BY MAN (455 pp.)-Paul Herrmann-Harper ($6). This is a German scholar's fascinating survey of travel and discovery before Columbus. Author Herrmann has pulled together all sorts of odd bits of learned lore to show that "the world has been since early times almost as great and wide as in our own day." He tells why experts now think that Bronze Age drummers lugged oaken sample cases through north European forests, and how the Egyptians of 4,000 years ago rowed their galleys 4,000 miles south to the Zambezi River to fetch myrrh, frankincense...