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...cautious, precise, knows what he is about and can always prove it, gets along well with Congressmen of all shades of belief. The only complaint is that he is too meticulous. Last year he built a big rowboat in his basement, listened patiently to the ribbing of acquaintances who were sure he could never get it out the door; when he finished, it cleared the door by a quarter-inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smith & Coy | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Enjoying a post-exam rest at a friend's home in Westport, Connecticut, Warner saw the pursuit plane plunge into the ocean not over a half-mile away. Without pausing for an instant, he rushed to a nearby yacht basin, found a rowboat and set out over the choppy waters of the Sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Saves Army Pilot In Choppy Long Island Sea | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

...third day a strange monster flew into the field, rocking and pitching like an aerial rowboat. It was a DC-2, with a DC2 wing strapped to its belly, stub end first, both ends cambered into an awkward streamline by sheets of plywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Space Machine Patched | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...John, U.P.'s Leon Kay, the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, the New York Times's Ray Brock, and Leigh White of CBS and Overseas News Agency. When last heard of (at Cattaro, April 16), they were heading into the Adriatic in a rowboat, presumably bound for Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Missing Correspondents | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Harvard students threw themselves off the Weeks Bridge over the Charles River. Well, no, they didn't exactly THROW themselves over--if we know those Harvard kids, they dived and had a couple of friends close at hand (just in case) with a rowboat and a quart of Scotch. They think ahead, those Harvard lads. --From the Sunday Advertiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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