Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millionaire and partner of Andrew Carnegie, came ashore at San Francisco from the Malolo to tell of a dream and its end. The dream: a perpetual honeymoon with her fisherman-guide husband on the yacht Kaimiloa, cruising in Southern seas. Medford Kellum had served all his life as a seaman, had guided the Lauders on Florida fishing trips. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Lauder, half his age; from 1920 to 1923 he made a fortune in Miami real estate; in 1924 the couple sailed in quest of eternal happiness. Its end: the Reno (Nev.) divorce courts...
...Philadelphia, came a radio from the police that a St. Petersburg girl was believed to have been smuggled aboard the Billingsley; please to make a search. Indignant, Commander Cobb searched-and found 15-year-old Cynthia Alberta Pool. She said she had been persuaded to go by a seaman named Kramer; that a married woman of St. Petersburg had planned to go too but was prevented by her husband, who appeared on the dock at the last moment...
...Seaman Kramer was put in irons. Cynthia Alberta Pool was put ashore at Mayport, Fla. She said she would have jumped overboard if she had known her father would hear about it. They locked her up in a boarding house until the father came. Meantime, Commander Cobb sent a radio to Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, commanding the destroyer force of the Scouting Fleet. Commander Clark and his ships had just left New Orleans, bound for Atlantic Coast ports...
...Walter's grandson, Walter Leslie Runciman, 27, is no seaman but has married a daughter (Rosamond) of famed Cambridge rowing coach R. C. Lehmann. Everyone knows that swart Rosamond Lehmann has written a best selling novel-Dusty Answer...
...associations. Yet all his life he was a sailor-man at heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years he navigated the seven seas, as boy, able seaman, master mariner. He saw mutinies, endured shipwreck, felt the stiff kick of weather in typhoonous China seas. In the home port of old Newburyport one day he met Alice, daughter of Banker Albert W. Greenleaf, aristocratic Massachussets name, courted, married, took his bride to sea, retired three years later from...