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...with a relatively low profile, spent much of his $5.4 billion on charitable works that included financing a Greek translation of the Koran and sending a 20,000-ton cruise ship to temporarily house 900 Greek earthquake victims; in Athens. Born in a fishing village, the onetime deckhand bought his first freighter in 1938, later expanding into an empire of ships, banks, oil refineries and construction companies...
...might consider playing the Course at Yale to be equivalent to shifting lounge chairs on a sinking ship. If so, the Harvard men’s golf team has found the perfect deckhand in junior Andrew Klein...
...Leaves of Grass, "[I am] one of the great nation, the nation of many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...
...Grainger at the Robert C. Byrd lock in West Virginia, he forgoes preaching in favor of hearing the crew's news and distributing the prayer schedule of the institute's tiny Paducah, Ky., chapel: the boatmen can join in as their work shifts and the river permit. When one deckhand stabbed another in Paducah in November, and a pilot fell off a tow in Greenville last month, Wilkinson visited the survivors "to let people know someone is concerned when things happen on the river...
...prosperous Republican coal-mine owners, Lamm worked his way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even though he didn't have to, spending summers as a lumberjack in Oregon and an ore-boat deckhand on the Great Lakes. He became a C.P.A. as well as a lawyer, graduating from law school at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and eventually rose through the ranks of Colorado politics. As a state legislator in the 1960s, he pushed through one of the earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model...