Word: anderssen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lines of Leif Ericsson's 10th Century vessel, sailed from Norway to New York en route to Chicago's World's Fair. Her welcome to the U.S. was so lavishly staged by the Norwegian Society of Brooklyn that six of her crew, including Captain Magnus Anderssen, ended up in Brooklyn's Butler Street police court charged with being drunk and disorderly. The presiding magistrate, James M. Tighe, who happened to be president of Brooklyn's own Celtic Varuna Boat Club, was not impressed with the difficulties of the Norsemen's voyage. "A boat like...
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