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Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
Setting out in his 45-foot ketch, the Mary Otis, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, will continue his colorful voyages on the trail of Christopher Columbus during the summer, this time tracing the probable route of the discoverer in the Caribbean...
Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China...
...already. Although carried almost to the ridiculous, the plot on the whole is well-handled, and allows for some spontaneous acting by a cast that does everything required of it. Sheldon Leouard as Officer Finkelstein is the only part with real guts. But Doris Dudley, Morgan Farley and Kurt Ketch supply enough clues and alibis to make their presence worth while. "Margin For Error" is not brilliant mystery nor complete satire; but working with both, Clare Boothe has provided another fair evening...
...expedition started last August 28, as the eight members of the expedition and four others sailed aboard the Capitana, 147 foot ketch named after Columbus's ship on his third voyage of discovery. Horta in the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal were the first ports of call. In Lisbon the party met the second ship of the expedition, the Mary Otis, a 45 foot ketch and sailed on to Cadiz and Madeira...