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...novel cruise on a four-masted schooner yacht with Count Felix von Luckner, the famous German sea raider, as skipper, is being planned for a group of about fifty Harvard men during the coming spring vacation...
Count von Luckner's private yacht, the "Mopelia," formerly known as the "Vaterland," is to be the cruise ship. She is 235 feet in length, spread 28,000 feet of sail, and is powered with two Diesel auxiliaries. A large smoking room is one of the features of the ship, and here every night, beyond the twelve-mile limit, the cruise party will gather to hear of the thrilling sea raids of Count von Luckner during the World...
...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...
Count Felix ("Sea-Devil") von Luckner weighed anchor on his four-masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours...
...only agent for bringing to Cambridge lecturers of national and often international reputations, the Union has rendered an important service in recent years. In the past its list of speakers has included such interesting personalities as Christopher Morley, Count Felixvon Luckner, Alexander Woollcott, Ford Madox Ford, and the arctic explorer Stefansson...