Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
Five days after Bachelor Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 27, married Spinster Anne Spencer Morrow, 21, a 38-ft. Elco cruiser chugged alongside a small dock in New Harbor, Block Island (R. I). A tall young man, tastefully disguised in smoked glasses and a cap, standing alone at the wheel, shouted for aid in bringing his boat alongside. Capt. Louis Rounds, relaxing nearby, gave him a hand. The tastefully disguised young man was the Honeymooning Hero. His bride hid in the cabin below. Capt. Rounds told the story two days later and newsgatherers sped east...
...conceal his identity, the Hero draped canvas over the word "Mouette" on the cruiser's stern. The Coast Guard announced its right to shoot at anybody who did such a thing. The Mouette reached York Harbor, Me., and one Frank ("Red") Dolan, New York Daily News reporter who had known Lieut. Lindbergh in his pre-hero days at Roosevelt Field, set out for an interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according...
...Dolan: Are you going up to North Haven [Morrow summer home] tonight, or will you anchor here in York Harbor...
Department of Genetics. Charles Benedict Davenport, 63, was an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1904. He had the idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a quarter-century ago. Its first work was on plants and animals. Mrs. Harriman a few years later established a eugenics record office adjoining his station. The two were later combined under him, and his supervision extended over research on all forms of life. He is still director...