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That summer the Scituate Yacht Club hired Grover as swimming instructor and "deckhand." In the course of turning out the clubhouse lights one night, Charlie ignored a peremptory request by a solitary individual he had never seen before that the lights be left on. The individual turned out to be an ex-commodore and person of some standing in the club...
Divorce Revealed. Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab driver, hot-dog vendor, U.S. Army private; after nine years (no children); in Manhattan...
...doldrum days between World Wars I & II, Louis Slobodkin, then a broth of a boy, now a ranking U.S. sculptor, decided to ship as a deckhand on the tramp freighter S.S. Hermanita, plying between the Port of New York and Latin America. Fo'castle Waltz is his 352-page total recall of this nautical episode...
Born 33 years ago in Scranton, Pa., he went to Hotchkiss where he edited the school paper, and then on to Williams from which he graduated in 1934. Summers he filled in by working as a deckhand on a Grace Line freighter, by police reporting for the Scranton Tribune (to help pay his way through college), by taking a course in International Law at the League of Nations at Geneva on a history scholarship...
...success as an oilman," wired Harry Ford Sinclair to his only son and namesake one day last week. A sophomore at Dartmouth, just turned 21, Harry Ford Jr. cranked a pump one summer in a Long Island filling station near the Sinclair estate, spent his last vacation as a deckhand on a Sinclair tanker. But that was not what Oilman Sinclair referred to in his wire. Harry Jr. wanted to quit college, go to work, so last week as a surprise Mr. Sinclair had him elected a director, member of the executive and finance committees of Consolidated Oil Corp...