Word: islands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vivacious, smart, well educated. The affair blossomed in the 44-day voyage from Singapore to Boston. On the 45th day, when Utrecht left Boston for New York, the shipboard romance was dead-and so was Lynn Kauffman, whose half-nude body, brutally beaten, was found awash on Spectacle Island in Boston Bay. Last week police arrested Radio Officer Van Rie on a charge of murder...
Cuba had been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...
...Rhode Island's grandest old man. Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, rose as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans...
...ones were running in their annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
...experts with the same reverential awe they reserve for the striper himself. A stumpy 230 lbs., he won last year with a 51-pounder that he promptly sold to "some city feller standing around. Gave me ten dollars." In a monumental battle Oscar once landed a 63-pounder-the island record for surf casting. "I've thrown back more fish than most men have caught," he says matter-of-factly. "Anything less than 30 lbs. doesn't interest me." He would never consider eating a striper he caught -he does not like the taste...