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While asserting that training was an important item in preparing for a fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting...
...tons, 33 ft. over all, belonged to Allen's father. Allen was skipper, "Cupid" mate; Kent was cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab, their destination, they thought their troubles were over; but that night a storm hit them, shifted their moorings, pounded the Direction against the rocks (TIME, July 29, 1929). They got ashore without trouble...
Author & Artist. Rockwell Kent, 48, onetime well-digger, sailor, farmer, teacher, lobsterman, carpenter, architect, boatbuilder, has a passion for the sea, a passion for painting. Not afraid of solitude, he has lived and sailed much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where...
...years Wagner's Dutchman has been missing from the repertoire of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, but last week it was revived with Baritone Friedrich Schorr as the Dutchman. A famed Norwegian basso, Ivar Andresen, made his debut as the Norwegian Daland, capably acted the jovial sailor but disappointed with singing which, according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high...
...that historic moment every Red sailor felt the power of the Soviet Republic-a power which forced the representatives of English imperialism to hoist the hated Red flag and forced the band, accustomed to glorify the might of Britain, Empress of the Seas, to play the Internationale, summoning to battle all those oppressed by capitalism...