Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urged on by enterprising travel agencies, foreigners were crowding into every corner sacred to the English heart. Crew-cut Americans festooned with photographic equipment were everywhere. Saris and West African tribal robes drew only passing glances at such strongholds of the Savile Row sack suit as Claridge's and the Dorchester. The harsh accents of Sydney and Melbourne bounced almost unnoticed off the walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard...
...noises of that and subsequent eavesdroppings on the whales. Two later voyages with a tape recorder confirmed his memory. "First there was a loud, strong sound," he said last week at Woods Hole, "then this clicking noise. Click. Click. Click. Over and over. I counted 70 in a row. They came as fast as five to a second...
This being the day of His Majesty's happy accession to the throne, there will be given by Mr. Doggett an Orange Colour Livery with a Badge representing Liberty to be rowed for by Six Watermen that are out of their time within the year past. They are to row from London Bridge to Chelsea. It will be continued annually on the same day forever...
Lighters & Skiffs. The big wherries and their rowers have long disappeared, and today's competitors are men who make their living handling cargo lighters. Their shells are carefully conditioned, and to make things still easier, they row the 4¾ miles to Chelsea with the tide, not against it, as Thomas Doggett's contemporaries used to do. No longer will the Speaker rush from the Chair in the House of Commons with the members in tow (as Charles Shaw-Lefevre did to watch the 1848 race). But to young rivermen, winning the race is still their greatest ambition...
Last week Disney was busy planning a $5,000,000 addition to his California land of fantasy. Next year there will be a Liberty Street, a row of Revolutionary-era shops leading off Independence Hall, and Thomas Edison Square, showing the world as it was before and after the light dawned. Then comes Scienceland, New Orleans Square and a 300-ft. "tunnel" along Disneyland's railroad route that will show three-dimensional views of the Grand Canyon. As a Disney associate says: "By the time Walt gets through, this will not only be the seventh wonder of the world...