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...Coast Guard had somebody on the way. We launched our life raft at about 8 in the morning in 55-ft. seas with 60-knot winds. It wasn't the easiest thing to do. Five men were able to get into it, and we tied it to the tug with a pair of lines. We wanted to pass things from the boat--flares and stuff--to the raft, and then climb in ourselves. But one rope broke, and then the other. It was like watching hope float away...
...seas were really high, the wind was really high, and the tension was up there too. About 15 minutes after we got into the water, we watched the tug sink. She looked pretty much like the Titanic, except the Gulf Majesty went down stern first. I'd been with her about two years, and my heart was really in her. My IBM laptop, my guitar, $500 worth of cigars, and the only picture I had of my father--he died in 1985--went down with the ship...
...song. Searching through closets to get an early gander at Christmas presents, he came across his birth certificate. He couldn't read the name listed for father, but the occupation read "baseball player." He says his mother Betty fessed up that his biological father was major-league baseball pitcher Tug McGraw. Tim struck up a cordial relationship with him and later changed his last name but still considers Smith, who raised him, his "real" father...
...largely controlled by the Mob, was in a moribund state until Muhammad Ali--Cassius Clay, in those days--appeared on the scene. "Just when the sweet science appears to lie like a painted ship upon a painted ocean," wrote A.J. Liebling, "a new Hero...comes along like a Moran tug to pull it out of the ocean...
While the University paid little mind to its down-the-road affiliate during the first half of the century, Lowell's instigation of the diploma dispute is emblematic of the Harvard-Radcliffe tug of war that characterized college life in Cambridge before the start of the Second World...