Word: rowboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent visit to New York, Atwood told about the most troublesome story he had ever worked on for TIME. It happened near Cordova, Alaska, and involved two boys in a rowboat, who had taken a potshot at an "empty" shed on shore. The shed turned out to be packed with dynamite and was blown skyhigh. Atwood received a long list of questions about the incident. But Cordova was 250 miles and a three-day boat trip away. So he relayed the wire to a friend there, sent the answers back to New York. Discrepancies in the story turned...
Died. Francis Patrick Matthews, 65, onetime Ambassador to Ireland (1951-52) and Secretary of the Navy (1949-51), who confessed that his only nautical experience was with "a rowboat at my summer home"; of a heart attack; in Omaha. His big job as Navy Secretary: joining President Truman in quelling the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," who feared loss of Navy power in the new strategic war planning. Matthews ousted Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations and, distrusting Navy channels, personally summoned to Washington (by commercial airline in civilian clothes) the Mediterranean's Sixth Task Fleet...
Many people weren't waiting to find out. This week, as the flood crest swelled downstream, scores of smaller communities were virtual ghost towns as residents evacuated their homes, leaving only armed rowboat patrols behind to guard against looters...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...Flying Enterprise, interviewed his family and crew. People read that he had learned his deep-water trade by crossing the Atlantic ten times in sailing ships, that he had made up his mind to be a sailor at the age of eleven, and stubbornly insisted on taking his old rowboat into the most dangerous waters around his home at Hamlet-haunted Elsinore, Denmark. By the time Carlsen arrived last week, the city...