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That even a strike cannot break up the day-to-day movement of life was illustrated Tuesday when, in a manner grandly reminiscent of clipper ships days, the Queen Mary slipped into port helped only by a rowboat, several stevedores, and St. Christopher. Owing to the New York tugboat strike, the Cunard liner did not have its customary twelve pushers as it arrived off the Fiftieth Street pier in early morning sunlight. On its bridge stood Commodore Robert B. Irving who observed the state of the weather and declared it deal, then took out his gold medal of the patron...
...Boston Navy Yard was forced to default a rowing race against the U. S. Coast Guard in Boston Harbor. Reason: The Navy had no rowboat...
...Rockefeller boys take life pretty seriously. Story is that once when playmates teased them about their dilapidated rowboat, suggesting that they get their father to buy them an outboard motor, Brothers Winthrop & David replied in unison: "Who do you think we are, Vanderbilts...
...ship his absence would soon be noted; the water was pleasantly lukewarm; he was a strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same, it was a lonely feeling to see the Arabella getting smaller-first the size of a rowboat, then the size of a barrel, then nothing but a smudge of smoke...
...wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief at The Nore), his escort consisting of four of Britain's new secret torpedo motor...