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Word: sailboat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...childhood loner. "I kept pigeons and spent nearly all my free time sailing and fiddling with my boat by myself." In his junior year at Harvard, Lodge married pert Nancy Kunhardt, hauled her off on a month-long honeymoon cruise up the Maine coast to Canada in an open sailboat. When a hurricane whirled by, they anchored in the lee of a desolate island and ate clams for three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Just Long to Have Alone in Debate | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

Washington's Episcopal-run Beauvoir El ementary School incorporates a dose of natural theology in its kindergarten prayer : Great grey elephant, little yellow bee; Tiny purple violet, big tall tree; Red and white sailboat on a blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A People at Prayer | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

David was also taught that excess of any kind was intolerable in a Rockefeller. Soon after his tenth birthday, he wanted a toy sailboat and took it upon himself to order one from a carpenter. When his father found out about it, he deducted the $4 cost from David's allowance over a period of months. A devout Baptist, John D. Jr. neither smoked nor drank and did everything in his power to impress upon his sons the evils of both practices. (David enjoys a martini or two before dinner, but has never taken up smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Man at the top | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...radical departure from its normal format, the Brattle Street Forum will dive into the world of parachute jumping and sailboat racing tonight from 9 to 11 p.m. on WGBH-TV (channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Forum to Cover Parachuting, Yachting | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

Died. John Gale Alden, 78, ruddy Yankee yachtsman and sailboat designer who put ocean racing within reach of the only moderately rich with his Malabar class of small rugged schooners derived from Gloucester fishing smacks, proved the soundness of his designs by becoming the first man to win three Bermuda regattas, and set more of his hulls afloat than any other U.S. marine architect; of a stroke; near Orlando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 16, 1962 | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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