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...Kennedy has never held elective office in his life. He has refused to confront his two major opponents in open debate, apparently out of the well-found fear that he is no intellectual match for either of them. Out of seventeen opportunities since he was twenty-one, he has voted only four times in local, state, and national elections. He has made no record of accomplishment in any area of human endeavor to suggest that he is remotely qualified for the U. S. Senate. As Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, an outspoken "New Frontier" advocate, said some months ago of Teddy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors and Teddy | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

...been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, grizzle-bearded Captain Joshua Slocum desperately wanted the 36-footer, and he got her. By the time he had put in a year's work rebuilding the Spray into a staunch, well-found craft, he was ready to put to sea. One spring day in 1895, with only Slocum aboard, the Spray sailed out of Boston harbor on what turned out to be a 46,000-mile voyage. At 51, Joshua Slocum was doing what he had wanted to do since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alone | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...could not discover a golf-course any where; but otherwise the Queen Mary seemed to me to be a well-found ship. . . [Passengers] will enjoy the brass plate [on the promenade deck] which charmingly records that Lord Burghley has made the circuit of that enormous area in 58 seconds [distance 570 yards] 'untrained and unchanged' - and, I believe, in evening dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stateliest Ship | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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