Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a spanking breeze on the quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...hookers had met several times before-on the Baltic. Seven Seas was a Swedish training ship launched in 1912. U. S. Yachtsman Inglis Uppercu bought her in 1929. sold her last year to 74-year-old William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise...
Captain of the Conrad is Alexis Troonin, an oldtimer who learned his seamanship in Russian waters. Captain of Seven Seas is Hans Milton, who served as a cadet on the ship when she was known as Abraham Rydberg. Both crews include seamy professionals as well as enthusiastic amateurs. Owner Gubelmann was not aboard Seven Seas last week but his son Walter was. So was 18-year-old George Emlen Roosevelt Jr., cousin of the President, who has crossed the Atlantic 14 times under sail. On the Conrad were George M. Pynchon Jr., crack blue-water yachtsman, and Vadim Makaroff...
...182Pitcher Fred Frankhouse of the Brooklyn Dodgers, tailenders in the National League: a no-hit, no-run baseball game (called because of rain after seven innings), against the Cincinnati Reds, 5-to-0; the first no-hit game in the National League this year; at Brooklyn, N. Y. Last Dodger to record a no-hit performance was famed Dazzy Vance in September...
...shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...