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George Tower, proprietor of Mariposa on Western Ave., was arrested in his shop, and John Rodgers, a Boston resident, was arrested while selling in Harvard Square...
...while the Painters and the Conrads and thousands like them slept, trailers and turtle-backed Volkswagens and humpbacked sedans piled high with tents and bedrolls, were sweeping along the roads into the Sierra, the highways circling the Smokies, and the byways of Wisconsin and New Hampshire. Through valleys where Mariposa grow, and lilies and larkspur, beyond the cities and into the living monuments of hills and forest and rivers, the camping families were finding their...
...refurbish the Lurline, Matson Navigation Co. had laid out close to $19,500,000, more than twice the ship's original cost. The heavy expense forced Matson to shelve plans for rebuilding her two sister ships, the Mariposa and the Monterey. Even the Lurline was a gamble as competition from the airlines (Pan American and United Air Lines) has cut deeply into Matson's business...
...except on freighters, but the American President Lines hoped to start sending converted transports to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila in June. The Matson Navigation Co. planned to resume sailings to New Zealand and Australia as soon as its four "white ships" (the Matsonia, Monterey, Lurline and Mariposa) are returned and reconverted from troop carriers, probably...
...recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which...