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Raging Nor'easter. At home in Sydney Harbor, Gretel already had shown herself swift and maneuverable in medium winds...
Fortnight ago, Packer gave her a sterner test. When a raging nor'easter swept into Newport from the slate-grey North Atlantic, he ordered Gretel to sea for a race against Vim. As small-craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume...
...Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs held some surprise inside-other eggs, or perhaps a hen, or a miniature of the czarevitch. Even when Czar Nicholas...
...will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such venerable status symbols as Upper East Side Manhattan's BUtterfield 8 and REgent 4. They will some day be as obsolete as morning coats on Easter Sunday...
Martin de Porres' private life was austere. He never ate meat, fasted completely from Holy Thursday until noon on Easter. In imitation of St. Dominic, he lashed himself three times nightly with a whip whose hooked ends were weighted with iron. Once, when the convent fell into debt, he suggested that his superior could raise some of the money by selling him as a slave; the offer was prudently refused...