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...With "Skipper" Vanderbilt in the afterguard will be Designer Burgess, C. Sherman Hoyt, who sailed with him on Enterprise, and John Parkinson of the Weetamoe afterguard. His professional skipper and mate will be those of 1930, Capt. George H. Monsell and Harry Klifve...
...skipper of the Black gauntlet had never won the long race home from China to London, the coveted prize of the China tea fleet, though he had come as near as nothing to it; this voyage he swore he would do it. And he was going strong, with good winds, when one foggy night a steamer rammed him. Only one boatload got away before the Blackganntlet sank. Nearest port was at Fayal in the Azores, 700 miles away; Officer Trewsbury thought they had a fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores...
...Vice President Charles Curtis, Skipper Adams commented: "Half Indian,* a politician and a statesman. He knew how the Senate would vote and knew their motives. As a practical legislator, he was of invaluable help...
Later that night the same ship was running up the Hudson River off Weehawken, N. J. Customs Inspector Michael Guilfoyle was not suspicious of her but since he had just been ordered to watch every ship closely, he hailed her. "We're bound for Albany," the skipper replied. "We can't stop in this tide." The inspector noted the name on her bow, Texas Ranger. He recognized her cut and markings as familiar, let her go through...
During the first two years of Eliot House's existence, its Head Tutor was Professor Matthiessen. In those years he was equally famous for his good China tea, his cat Pretzel, and the part of the Dutch skipper in the House play, which he played quite without fault (Cf. Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday," Mermaid edition). Cats are great favorites with him; he has been known to spend five or ten minutes at a stretch gazing into the eyes of his tabby while it sits in his lap. Just love, apparently. Crayon-drawings of past cats in his life...