Word: skippering
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...Skipper Roosevelt was coasting up Cape Cod toward the Pilgrim Tower at its tip when the Bernadou sped up from behind, put Assistant Secretary of State Moley aboard the Amberjack II for an hour's talk with the President. Mumbling polite nothings to the Press, Braintruster Moley flew off in a blue Naval seaplane for New York where he sailed next day for the London Economic Conference...
...Provincetown citizens gathered to greet the President, give him an expensive ship's model. But said Skipper Roosevelt to his crew: "Let's fool the Press and go on to Gloucester without stopping." So on they went, driving through the rough dark to drop the hook at midnight...
...held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...
Naval Court. Wheeling gloomily between two wide oil slicks off Barnegat Lightship-tombstone of the Akron-patrol boats picked up the bodies of Admiral Moffett, Captain McCord (the Akron's master), Commander Berry (last skipper of the Los Angeles). Lieut.-Commander MacLellan and Col. Alfred Masury, Army reserve officer and vice president of Mack Trucks Inc. Also they found the water-soaked logbook of Lieut. Hammond J. Dugan, which was immediately put on an airplane and flown to Lakehurst where sat a Naval Court of Inquiry into the disaster...
BOWSPRIT ASHORE-Alexander H. Bone - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Autobiography of the younger brother of Artist Muirhead Bone and Skipper David William Bone...