Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice president of book publisher John Day Co., Yachting staffers in the summer spend almost as much time on boats as they do in the office. The daily Stamford Advocate once ran a picture of a Lightning capsized in Long Island Sound with the crew sitting on the overturned hull. Scoffed the caption at one of the crew: "An assistant editor of Yacht ing magazine covering the championship race." Like other staffers, Managing Editor William H. Taylor, the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his yachting articles in the New York Herald Tribune in 1935), crews...
...mate friend packs Rolland off to navigation school, and in a few years Rolland becomes first mate of the Antonine. Off New Caledonia, the Antonine is hit by a hurricane. The wind shreds her sails and splinters her masts; the sea roars across her decks and smashes at her hull. With the captain dying, it is Rolland who tongue-lashes the men and keeps the Antonine afloat; with the captain's death, he gets his own captain's commission...
Died. Merlin Hull, 82, G.O.P. and Progressive U.S. Representative from Wisconsin for 21 years; in La Crosse...
Died. Leo Pasvolsky, 59, Russian-born architect of the United Nations charter and economics expert at Brookings Institution; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter...
Forget Me Not. In Waterloo, Iowa, James J. Cunningham accused his former wife, Donna Maxine Hull, of doing $500 worth of damage to his home by carving her name on two tables, a radio, a piano, a buffet, a bedroom chest, a refrigerator...