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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balked by a Coast Guard cutter in his attempt to reach Florida by canoe, Richard W. Hourtley '40 returned yesterday afternoon to his mother at Darien, Connecticut...
Young Hourtley had planned to voyage on the inland coast waterway. "I would have made it, too, if it hadn't been for the confounded Coast Guard," he said...
...urgent instigation of the Darien, Connecticut, boy's mother, during the last few days forty Coast Guard cutters from three States have been combing the seas from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras in a desperate endeavor to discover the whereabouts of the prodigal...
Latest radio dispatches last night revealed that Richard W. Heurtley, Jr., bold adventurer of the Class of 1940, had been sighted by a Coast Guard cutter paddling his canoe in the rough waters off Rocky Point in the Long Island Sound...
Apparently Heurtley, who was forced to leave college because of ill health, was making a spectacular effort to reach the Sunny South in time for the winter season on the beaches of Florida. Whether his discovery by the Coast Guard cutter will terminate his venture has not yet been determined...