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Some boat kids can swim before they can walk. Dorothea Johnston's ketch-reared kids have left Long Beach Marina, their home port, but Son Monte, 25, is an aspiring officer in the Merchant Marine, while Daughter Thea, 26, became Southern California's first woman deckhand on a commercial fishing boat. (She is studying for her captain's license...
...most serious challenge to the hunt came from an environmental organization called Greenpeace, led by David McTaggart, 47. A veteran of the annual seal-hunting protests in his native Canada, McTaggart six years ago sailed a wooden ketch into the South Pacific in a futile attempt to halt a French atomic bomb test. This time he vowed to keep a cordon of conservationists between the Norwegians and their prey. Said McTaggart: "There is no way they can stop us, short of sending in the police...
...bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when an-ugh! -Dogpatch maiden kin ketch-sob!-a Dogpatch bachelor...
London came to take himself very seriously indeed. He thought of himself as a socialist, though he was the highest-paid writer of his day-making over $70,000 a year, owning four houses at one time plus a $30,000 ketch named the Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London got his theories of evolution all mixed up with his notions of Nordic supremacy. The white man, he insisted, could stand the cold better than the Indian could, and in the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight of 1910 he rooted for Jeffries to "wipe the golden smile off the nigger...
...sunbathers and turistas" discovered Key West in droves, Buffett moved on in his ketch. Says he: "I've found other places and other sources just traveling around the Caribbean. There are a lot of incredible characters down there, as migratory and as gypsy-souled as I am." Buffett petitioned the Cuban government for permission to sail into Havana harbor. It was denied, but he plans to try again...