Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year a Dutchman named John de Boers began making mistakes, biggest of which was to dream of a fortune he would scoop in three years from St. Paul's waters. He bought a Newfoundland trawler, L'lle Bourbon, spent a small fortune transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer...
...senior radio operator and ship's doctor ashore at Djibouti. De Boers took aboard a doctor whom he found in French Somaliland. At Madagascar most of the white crew mutinied, and blacks were signed on in their places. Then the fractious expedition set off for frigid St. Paul...
Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
Haughty Episcopal St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) is famed for its hockey players and austere headmasters. From its founding in 1855 until Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith ("The Drip") Drury died last February, it was headed by four successive churchmen. Since then its trustees have argued whether they should break precedent by appointing a layman rector. Meanwhile, Layman Henry Crocker Kittredge, son of Harvard's renowned Professor George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge, served as acting rector...
...brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul's is one of the few prominent U. S. preparatory schools that still has the same belief...