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Stephens' attempt to evoke that memory began two years ago when as chaplain of Coventry's biggest hospital he encountered two dying boys: Billy Henderson, 12, who had cancer in his legs, chest and bloodstream; and Kenneth Lawley, 11, with head injuries resulting from a fall from his bike. "Billy died first," said Stephens, "and I felt a need to tell his parents they were not alone in their grief. I told them about Kenneth, and after Kenneth died I introduced the two sets of parents." Adds Joan Henderson: "We found we could cry together about our boys...
...comparatively few U.S. citizens are able to afford big, custombuilt yachts. Over the past fifteen years, three of the nation's famed yacht yards - Herreshoff, Lawley's, Robert Jacobs - have shut down. Last week Nevins announced that it, too, will close, a casualty to foreign competition (mostly German and Dutch) and income taxes...
Black and Ewing have received advice from the designer of the "Yankee," Frank Paine, of George Lawley Company which is also doing experimental naval construction. Direct assistance was given by Freeman Koo '42 as representative of the Chinese government, one of the foreign powers interested in the experiment...
Whirlwind. Mrs. Edwin Thorne, mother of Landon Ketchum Thorne, Manhattan banker, broke the bottle, and the America's Cup contender in which her son owns the biggest share tilted easily down its ways in the shipyard of George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Mass. Head up, like a horse freed in pasture, the Whirlwind checked up off Squantum Island, her waterline standing out between her white topsides and the green paint on her mahogany underbody. She is 130 ft. overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than...
...launch, purchased from the Lawley Yacht Company of Dorchester, and reputed to be second only to the Patricia in speed, has been secured by the crew management as an addition to the equipment of motor launches. The new boat is the sixth to be acquired, and thus gives a launch to each coach...