Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every week an old U.S. Navy crash boat, renamed the Marlin, shoves off from Fort-de-France, Martinique. Aboard are 4O-odd brightly turbaned native women, carrying demijohns and wicker baskets and headed for the British island of St. Lucia, a five-hour ride across the choppy blue Caribbean...
...Castries, capital of St. Lucia, the Marlin's chattering passengers quickly pass through British customs. They pay a 50?-a-gallon tariff on the French wine in their demijohns, but none on the high-duty Martinique rum hidden in their baskets. Ashore, they barter or sell their wine and rum, then go shopping. St. Lucia has the foodstuffs that bone-poor Martinique has had to do without...
Last fortnight, just as the Marlin was to sail from St. Lucia, a woman screamed that someone had stolen her demijohn. When police went aboard the Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
Intermediate Horsemanship: First, Miss Rosenbaum '51; second, Lucia Cate '50; third; Phyllis Torp '52; fourth, Pat Hughes...
Eleaner Larsen '50 of Belmont has been elected vice-president of the Radcliffe, junior class, Jennifer Post '51, chairman of the voting committee, announced yesterday. She will take office immediately, succeeding Lucia Toscano '56, who resigned last week...