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...barkentine of 295 tons, named for a headland in Tasmania, and she was rotting at a stone quay in St. Malo when Adrian Seligman found her. Six years out of Cambridge and holder of a second mate's certificate earned in three years at sea, Seligman had a new wife, a legacy of ?3,500 and the uncertain future that everyone had in 1936. He bought the Cap Pilar, refitted her and sailed her around the world...
Died. Captain Martin L. Smith, 27, one of the Army Air Forces' top jet pilots, holder of the unofficial U.S. speed record (619 m.p.h.), veteran of 78 wartime fighter missions; when his jet-propelled P-80 Lockheed Shooting Star hurtled into the ground; near Xenia, Ohio...
Smith will devote his year abroad to the study of contemporary poetry at Cambridge. At College he was holder of a National Scholarship, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and editor of The Advocate...
...eligible for the Bowdoin Prize in the Classics, a man must be the holder of an academic degree. He must have been in residence at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for a full year between...
Sharp-tempered Jimmy Moffett filed suit for $6,000,000 against Arabian American Oil Co. (owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., which also own Bahrein Petroleum), holder of the vast oil concessions in Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). This sum, said he, was due him for political chores done while he was with Bahrein Petroleum. When a Senate committee perked up its ears at this charge, Jimmy Moffett gladly told his story...