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Cruise of a Lifetime. At first, it appeared that Harvey had committed suicide in a spasm of grief. His wife, Mary Dene, 34, a former TWA airline hostess and a bride of four months, had died just five days earlier, in the sinking of the chartered, 60-ft. ketch Bluebelle, which her husband skippered. Julian Harvey had been plucked from the sea in the yacht's dinghy with the body of René Duperrault, 7, another passenger...
...return to Miami, Harvey told the Coast Guard investigators a tale of flaming horror aboard the Bluebelle. The graceful, 33-year-old ketch had been chartered for a week's cruise by Dr. Arthur Duperrault, 41, a wealthy Green Bay, Wis., optometrist, and his family: Wife Jean, 38; Son Brian, 14; Daughter Terry Jo, 11, and little red-haired René. Mary Harvey served as her husband's crew and ship's cook. For two days the vacationers cruised lazily among the Bahama islands. At Sandy Point on Great Abaco Island, their only port of call, they...
...causes: New York's James Peck, 46, who spent three years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, and Connecticut's Architect-Painter Albert Bigelow, 55, who got tossed into a Honolulu cell after he and three shipmates set out in 1958 in the ketch Golden Rule, heading for Eniwetok atoll in an effort to halt scheduled U.S. nuclear tests...
...exception that proved the rule, in spades: Hilary Belloc, son of British Author-Historian Hilaire Belloc, was letting out the anchor of a 36-ft. ketch when the chain tightened, cutting off half of his ring finger. While Belloc went on to the ballpark and got the remaining part of his finger bandaged at the stadium clinic, his 16-year-old son Martin searched in the shallow water, finally found the missing half. It was delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part...
Bigelow, a 1931 graduate of the School of Architecture, is known for his attempted voyage in the ketch "Golden Rule" into the Pacific nuclear test area in a protest against bomb testing...