Word: sailboating
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...that anyone in Nassau could say with assurance, the man who killed Sir Harry Oakes might even now be sipping a whiskey & soda at the Prince George bar. Or he might be racing a fleet sailboat before the Royal Nassau Sailing Club. He might be talking business in a Nassau office, taking part in a cocktail-party discussion of the mystery-or resting, full fathom five, beneath the clear waters off Hog Island. Or he might not be in the Bahamas...
...time for thumb-twiddling. Young Dr. Maxwell Kennedy of Nome found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...
...Just Curious." Seattle-born Dr. Good drifted into his sailboat practices because "I guess I am just curious about what's on the other side of the horizon." After his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Dental School he went back home and, in 1909, with four friends and five pairs of dental forceps, sailed for Alaska in a 21-foot boat called The Kid. The Gold Rush was on and the boys did a fine business. Dr. Good has been back every summer but three (when he went to see what Europe was like...
...always done things the hard way, and the spectacular. When he was ordered to Hawaii, he bought a 40-foot sailboat, boned up on navigation, and sailed out. He still has a sailboat tied up against future leisure-the When and If, it is called...
...night last summer, a small sailboat crept out of Batavia. Aboard were three Dutchmen, the first and (so far) the only white men on record who have escaped from Java since the Japs took the island almost a year ago. Last week one of those Dutchmen, safe in the U.S., told what it was like to live under Japanese military rule...