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...fancy himself a cowpuncher, or for some other reason, Goodman Peyntree pulled up roots by late 1637, and moved his family off to Connecticut. In 1638 the little community learned that the middle house in Cow Yard Row had been purchased, and they watched with anxiety as workmen began fitting up the old Peyntree place for a new college...
...along, or a press release to mark their passing, the last set of wooden goal posts left the Stadium last week. The usual accompaniment of the Harvard University Band was missing and there were no undergraduates triumphantly waving splinters. This was an official orderly ceremony: in their place H.A.A. workmen created] unyielding metal structures...
...archaeologist of Salerno and Potenza provinces, convinced a reluctant Italian government that a unique record of Greek and post-Greek civilization might well lie beneath the stones. In 1951, under a $480,000 government grant (made possible by Marshall Plan aid), he started digging with a crew of 46 workmen, and soon found evidence to support his educated guess. Among his rich preliminary finds: a colored, life-size terra-cotta statue of a god, probably Zeus adorned with a thin, Dali-like mustache; a rare, ten-inch nude model of Hera, wife of Zeus and the goddess of fertility...
During World War II the Nevins yard built minesweepers and aircraft-rescue boats. But when war orders ended, Nevins found he could no longer make profits on new boats. Nevertheless, he kept building, often turning out yachts at cost just to give jobs to his workmen, some of whom had been with him for 30 years. Then he was injured in a fall at the yard, and when Bolero was launched in 1949, he told his wife he expected it would be his last launching. In the last months of his life, he often asked to be carried...
...Bethlehem Steel's San Francisco shipyard, dungareed workmen bustled about under a towering new ship, greasing ways and loosening chocks. Then, as a whistle signaled, a bottle of California champagne was smashed against the be-flagged ship's bow, and the Pacific Far East Lines's S.S. Golden Bear slid smoothly into...