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...Endeavour had been fairly beaten in the race. To newshawks he announced that he would never challenge for the Cup again. While a party at Newport's Clambake Club broke up in a row over whether the Committee should have heard the Sopwith protest and Designer Charles G. Nicholson of Endeavour went home disgusted, fair-minded yachtsmen had no trouble reaching a conclusion about the historic truths of the 1934 series: Endeavour, as a boat, was definitely faster than Rainbow. Mr. Sopwith, as a skipper who took the blame for "all my wrong tactics," was decidedly less able than...
...years ago on a back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
...decided to challenge the night after Shamrock V was dismasted one day last August.* I had bought the Shamrock, Sir Thomas' last challenger. . . . The next morning Charles E. Nicholson, the designer, came to see me about a new mast. He left with an order for a challenger. . . . Endeavour goes well to windward and in a jump of sea. . . . What about her chances? How long is a piece of cord...
Many a paper took columns to say what Publisher Leonard Kimball Nicholson of the New Orleans Times Picayune put into 35 words: "Inasmuch as we do not 'work children, or do business in a fire trap, or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness,' there is no comment we can make on the President's action...
Transcribed by Francis Scott Key from notes on the back of an envelope immediately after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, on the night of Sept. 13-14, 1814, it was given by the author to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, who had a number of broadside copies printed at his own expense. The manuscript remained in the Nicholson family until the Judge's granddaughter Rebecca Post Shippen sold it in 1927 to Henry Walters, Baltimore railroad tycoon (Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville). The price was said to be around...