Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barkentine of 295 tons, named for a headland in Tasmania, and she was rotting at a stone quay in St. Malo when Adrian Seligman found her. Six years out of Cambridge and holder of a second mate's certificate earned in three years at sea, Seligman had a new wife, a legacy of ?3,500 and the uncertain future that everyone had in 1936. He bought the Cap Pilar, refitted her and sailed her around the world...
Messersmith's probable successor was smooth, amiable James Bruce, 54, vice president of the National Dairy Products Corp. Son of Maryland's onetime Democratic Senator, Princeton-mate of Navy Secretary James Forrestal, James Bruce was no trained diplomat. Aside from a short tour as assistant military attache in Rome, and as special representative in Montenegro for the Versailles peace conference, he had stuck to banking and finance...
...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...
Little Willie Turnesa, only amateur among the seven famed golfing Turnesa brothers, was the first to reach the final. Finishing early, he then helped out his Walker Cup team mate, Dick Chapman, who was having trouble in his semifinal round. Turnesa held an umbrella over Dick's head while he played his short game, and whispered helpful hints in his ear between times. Chapman finally won his match on the 18th green...
...made the word Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about the second mate on a freight boat than the captain of the America...