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Benjamin C. Rigger Henry B. Robbins, Edward R. Sargent, Roland W. Smith, Jr., William Sidney Smoot, Jacob I. Toyster, Richard L. Turcotte, and Richard J. Youdin...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
With brief text (59 pp.), 208 photographs (mostly of the square-rigger Parma, on which he sailed in 1933), he tells the soon-to-be-historic story of the dwindling fleet that still annually rounds the Horn on the long passage from Australia to England...
...lengths in the race Saturday afternoon over the regulation Henley course. The Black and White crew was a half length ahead after the first half-mile when the 150 crow's No. 7 man caught a minor crab and although he recovered from it the strain later caused the rigger to break, making the car utterly useless. The time for the winning boat was seven minutes and seventeen seconds for the mile and five-sixteenths...
William Lutz, employed by the H.A.A. as a boat-rigger for the past 35 years, died suddenly yesterday of heart failure. Burial will be from his late residence at 19 Sacramento Street at nine o'clock Monday...