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...this summer, Warwick M. Tompkins, Skipper of the schooner, intends to materialize an ambition which he has cherished over since he first tied a bowline, and follow the old clipper ship track to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Details of the proposed Horn passage were spun last evening by the Skipper aboard his ship in the lower Charles River Basin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westward Passage Around Cape Horn Planned By Tompkins in the Schooner "Wander Bird" | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan under Commodore Fritz Kruse. Captain Kieff boarded the Europa as a passenger, headed back across the Atlantic in pursuit. Last week the Europa ran into heavy weather, arrived ten hours after the Reliance had churned off south on a round-the-world cruise. Grimly the taciturn German skipper stamped aboard the Furness Liner Eastern Prince, sailed for Rio de Janeiro, where he is scheduled to arrive the same day the Reliance is due there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Captain's Chase | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...supper in the Varsity Club a large cake, with the inscription, "Congratulations, Skipper," was brought in and set before the prospective bridegroom, who will marry in December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Congratulations, Skipper" | 11/5/1935 | See Source »

TIME, Oct. 14 issue, " 'Skipper' Roosevelt took in the whole show from the Houston's No. 2 barbette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...York Bench which, in his own words, is based largely on a "study of metaphysics and economics." Mr. Lowell, a chairman of the Tercentenary Committee, is an increasingly active tradition who represents the perpetuating quality of Harvard History. Mr. Adams outdistances competitors whether it be as a skipper, as secretary of the Navy, or as a Boston Brahmin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS THREE | 10/15/1935 | See Source »

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