Word: falmouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your historic voyage has ended," boomed a bullhorn on the harbor master's launch to the sailor in the tiny dinghy. "Welcome to Falmouth!" Over head a four-engine R.A.F. Coastal Command reconnaissance plane dipped its wings in salute. On the pier a crowd of 20,000 cheered wildly, a band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, and the town's scarlet-robed mayor waited to extend official greetings. Said Robert N. Manry, 47, as he stepped from the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic nonstop: "I'm flabbergasted...
...rivalry between two newspapers in the same city. For weeks the biggest story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerned one of its own em ployees. The paper kept its readers posted almost daily on the progress of Copy Editor Robert Manry, 48, who set out last June 1 from Falmouth, Mass., for Falmouth, England, aboard the frail 131-ft. sloop Tinkerbelle. Manry dutifully reported news of his crossing to the Plain Dealer via passing ships; once he sent a bundle of letters to his wife, and the Plain Dealer published those too. As all Cleveland concentrated on the adventures...
...REMEDY FOR WINTER is offered in Playwright Leonard Spigelgass' play about a noted historian (Dana Andrews) and his involvement with an actress (Susan Oliver). Holyoke, Mass.; Westport, Conn.; Falmouth, Mass.; Philadelphia; Chicago...
...with the Palmer House, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings, pioneered in the use of glass-curtain walls with Milwaukee's A. O. Smith engineering building, which antedated Manhattan's celebrated Lever House by 25 years; of pneumonia; in North Falmouth, Mass...
...series of brawls in the Falmouth-Hyannis area of Cape Cod, Mass., in which 160 young people were arrested -among them James Collins, 19, from Wethersfield, Conn., on charges of killing Stephen Gilligan of Newton, Mass, (whom he had never seen before) by hitting him so hard with a table leg that pieces of it penetrated his skull...