Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There may be a painting of a schooner over Donald Douglas' mantel, but Endymion today is a cutter. Thousands of Los Angeles yachtsmen, familiar with Endymion's magnificent single stick, remember that she was converted to a more modern rig a number of years...
Died. Felix Philip Vaccaro, 77, youngest of New Orleans' famed, fruit-rich Vaccaro brothers; after long illness; in New Orleans. With his brothers Joseph and the late Lucca, bull-necked Felix built a fortune of many millions on the basis of a schooner load of Honduran bananas. By the '30s the silent Italian trio were powers in (largely Louisianian) orange groves, ships, chemicals, banks, presses, oil, ice, hotels, real estate, insurance...
About 75 students (selected from four times that number of applicants) will hear Dr. Haggard, who has dispassionately written of both inebriety and teetotalitarianism. Haggard points to alcohol's good points ("the safest of all sedatives") and gives scientific reasons for tolerating an occasional cocktail or schooner of beer. Besides Haggard, the school will have 20 lecturers. Students will include clergymen, probation officers, school administrators, teachers, welfare workers. Typical accepted student is Michigan's Liquor Control Commission's research director, Lawrence McCracken...
Having braved the dangers of Solomon Island cannibals and Ball maidens, "Captain Jock" Low '45, back again at Harvard, will give an illustrated lecture in the Institute of Geographical Exploration tonight at 8 o'clock on his trip around the world in the schooner "Yankee." One of the members of Skipper Irving Johnson's crew, his nickname "Captain Jock" is a product of undergraduate days...
Included in the Institute of Geographical Exploration's series of illustrated lectures next month will be a talk, "Around the World on a Schooner" de livered by R. Jock Low '45, who was a member of the crew on the Schooner "Yankee" from...