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...Paul as a $15-a-month seaman. With the new Marcq St.-Hilaire navigating system learned in school, a refinement of which is now in common use in the Navy, Manning soon distinguished himself as a navigator, and was made quartermaster the second trip out. Then, while making Nantucket in choppy seas one day, he got seasick at the wheel, flubbed the captain's orders and was fired at the end of the voyage. Manning next shipped out to the Pacific for eleven months on the four-masted sailing ship Dirigo...
Born: February 10, 1896, in Norfolk, Va., only son (two sisters) of Lemuel C. Shepherd, a physician. His mother was Emma Lucretia Cartwright of Nantucket...
...vacation in Nantucket, Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney checked in for a checkup at the local hospital to find out what was making him so weary. He had one clue: "There certainly is a lot more work to being a Senator than a Congressman...
Sarnoff got his first operator's job on Nantucket Island, a job so lonely that few operators wanted it ($70 a month, $40 home to mother). David used his spare time to study books on wireless as tirelessly as he had the Talmud. Soon his expert "fist" could send 45 words per minute steadily for eight hours-a pace not many could equal. After two years there, he got himself transferred to Long Island, at a $10 cut in pay, so that he could go to night school, where he finished a three-year electrical engineering course in twelve...
Fate of Man. To prevent his whale from swallowing his novel, Melville had to create a hero powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...