Word: waterman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being a waterman at Chelsea on the Thames was a good way to get to know artists. With its cluttered wharves and shadowy hulls in the mist, Chelsea Reach was a famous painting spot. An old boat maker named Greaves (rhymes with leaves) used to row famed Painter J. M. W. Turner up & down the Reach. Walter Greaves, the boatman's son, painted heraldic devices on his father's boats and, as he grew up, longed for broader canvases. One day in the 1860s, when Walter was in his late teens, he got to know a Chelsea neighbor...
David J. Gordon, of 6943 Waterman Avenue, University City, a graduate of Clayton High School, Clayton...
Donald T. Tilson, Jr., of 5334 Waterman Avenue, St. Louis, a graduate of St. Louis Country Day School...
...more modest effort in the 100 was enough to equal his own previous best, and the previous college record with 52.7. A little less than seven seconds was shaved from the 1934 record in the 200 yard breast stroke when the stop-watch showed 2:27.8 as the versatile waterman hit the wall...
...called a going concern today. In three years it has lost close to $4.5 million; last year's losses alone were approximately $2.6 million and were one of the big reasons that hard-pressed T.W.A. was glad to get out. But by tying the line in with Waterman's steamship operations from Gulf ports, Jack Thornburg thinks that he can get TACA flying high again. And Waterman also hopes to show CAB that steamship companies can operate an efficient, economic sea-air service...