Word: thurstone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come in the night, one of those chowder-thick, chill wet shrouds from the sea that Maine men,, call "dungeon fogs." Casco Bay sailors stayed indoors. As Paul Thurston, president of the Rumford Falls Trust Co., Rumford, Me., walked into his office he had noticed empty desks, typewriters silent that should have been clicking. His secretary, Leila Sanders, was not in her place. Albert Melanson, Bessie Strople, Elizabeth Howard had not appeared for work, had sent no word...
When telephones in the bank began to ring, Mr. Thurston began to put two & two together. He learned that his missing employes and 30 others had sailed the day before from Dyer's Cove, 60 miles from inland Rumford, to picnic on Monhegan Island. They had been taken there by Skipper Paul Johnson on the Don, a 44-foot "Nova Scotian," long past her rum-running prime. Thurston telephoned to the Coast Guard. They had seen nothing...
Died. Harry E. Thurston, 67, ex-vaude-villian, brother of the late, great Prestidigitator Howard Thurston; in Miami...
...took over positions not on the executive board: David B. Stearns '42, of Milwaukee and Adams House, as Sports Editor; Robert Barnet '42, of Boston and Adams House, as Assistant Business Manager; Harrison F. Lyman '42, of Winchester and Winthrop House, as Assistant Editorial Chairman; and William R. Thurston '42, of Cambridge and Adams House, as Assistant Photo Chairman...
Fastest time for the Crimson was made by Captain Del Ames, who came in fourteenth. Bill Halsey, running for the Harvard Ski Club, finished twentieth, Roger Wilson was forty-eight, Bill Thurston fifty-second, and Phil Field fifty-third...