Word: ships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Russian army during the Russian civil war, served in the infantry and tank corps. In his two years of service, he almost died of typhus, was caught up by the Red army tide. Escaping, he shot his horse, jumped into the Black Sea and swam to a rescue ship, later made his way to Germany, where he enrolled for study at the University of Berlin in 1921, got his doctorate four years later...
...often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt (he says he picked up the habit while trying to dodge low-slung overheads aboard ship). Gates has not had a full-fledged vacation in six years, manages only a few hours at a time for golfing (mid-80s), boating with his wife Anne and their three daughters, romping with his four grandchildren. Says a longtime banker friend from Philadelphia: "Tom Gates has an unusually high...
...British Admiralty rechristened a fleet refueling ship, formerly H.M.S. Tide-race, which will now sail as H.M.S. Tide Flow. The Admiralty stoutly insisted that the change was made because Tiderace kept being confused with other tankers of similar name; below-decks scuttlebutt was that puckish sailors had insisted on rhyming Tiderace with the monicker of dimpled Schmalz Piano Pounder Liberace...
Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
More material, though, is continually coming to the Museum. A ship is now carrying to Boston 38 wooden boxes of new specimens obtained by a Museum exhibition in Nicaragua. These will have to fit somewhere. The usefulness of this new Nicaragua collection, as well as some parts of the Museum's rarely used study material, is questionable. Though a Permanent Committee on Storage Space carefully weeds out many such useless items, this work requires anthropological research on a truly sweeping scale. The Museum does not have unlimited storage space, and the upkeep of a catalogue is complex and expensive enough...