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...Kennedy said that he and Mary Jo had left for the ferry. Another is Russell Peachey, co-owner of Edgartown's Shiretown Inn, where Kennedy was staying, who could describe the Senator's appearance to ask the time at 2:25 a.m. There is Steve Hewitt, the ferryman, who can help to establish whether Markham spent the night in Edgartown or on Chappaquiddick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHO'S WHO AT THE KENNEDY INQUEST | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...orchestra of seven, Curlew River is a fragile work indeed, more tone poem than opera. Yet in a sedate, masquelike way, it has considerable melodic charm, and all its grace is underscored by the brilliant singing of Peter Pears and John Shirley-Quirk as the Madwoman and the Ferryman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 9, 1966 | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

Innumerable times he could have settled for what he had. He could have stayed a ferryman on the Ohio, where as a boy he was overwhelmed by earning a dollar in one day. He could have taken up the indolent hunting, fishing and Shakespeare-quoting

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LINCOLN AND MODERN AMERICA | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from his shoulders, Abdullah said $1,600. But the ferryman thought that was not a fair sheik, refused to switch cars at any price. His Highness' motorcar had to queue, wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Ferryman on the Minnesota. William Worrall Mayo came to the U.S. from Britain in 1845. He became a pharmacist in Manhattan's old Bellevue Hospital, later studied medicine at Indiana Medical College, moved, after several stops, to the little town of Rochester, Minn., 75 miles from Minneapolis. To eke out his meager earnings as a physician, the lively young man worked at various times as druggist, tailor, horse doctor, ferryman on the Minnesota River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Midwest's Mayos | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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