Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roger B. Spaulding, Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, said last night he had received a message from Davis announcing the Miru's safe arrival at Wilmington after having weathered several storms at sea. Spaulding said other vessels of that size had been in severe danger...
The men are: Geoffrey D. Bush '50, of Cambridge; Robert P. Davis '47, of Dorchester, Mass; Burton S. Dreben '50; Abraham Klein of Cambridge; James A. Kritzeck of Saint Cloud, Minn.; Gordon J. F. MacDonald '50, of Cambridge; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Jr. of Cambridge; George C. Soulis of Athens, Greece...
The Boston office of the Coast Guard said it presumed Davis would arrive in Boston sometime within the next two weeks.
Davis, whose hobby is Polynesian anthropology, decided to sail from his home in New Zealand to Pern and test a thesis: That the route the raft "Kon-tiki" took from Peru to the Polynesian Islands was actually a two-way thoroughfare.
Davis reached the Peru coastline after 68 days out of Wellington, New Zealand, and at registration-time, be sailed through the Panama Canal and began the last leg of his 10,000 mile journey to Boston.