Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merrill, a Mississippian who moved back home to Natchez on his retirement in 1947, announced that if he could raise enough money to keep the school from foundering and increase its enrollment, he would be glad to take the job of skipper. Moreover, he knew just what he wanted the Jefferson of the future to be like: a school where students would lay the basis of interservice understanding by taking combined courses in "naval, military, air and diplomatic sciences." Said Tip Merrill, once an outspoken foe of service unification (TIME, April 22, 1946): "Jefferson Military College could set the example...
...Crimson yachtsmen, paced by Skipper George Whitney, who won two races, sailed to a disputed victory over the Coast Guard Academy yesterday afternoon on the Thames River in New London. Coast Guard claims that Harvard can be not be credited with an official win because light rains and claims forced cancellation of two of the four scheduled races...
...nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found a warm reception from Bridges' longshoremen. At The Dalles, Ore., on the Columbia River, one skipper abandoned efforts to unload his cargo after Bridges' men mauled a pick-up crew of local farmers and cowhands. Trucks were smashed, machinery damaged and several truck drivers beaten up. Other longshoremen began an air-sea patrol to look out for other attempts to land the forbidden fruit. But Harry...
Juniors Scully and McElroy will each skipper a boat, with Carroll and Bishop, last year's freshman captain, acting as crow members...
...Bryant, 58, who gave up his own boat six years ago, could afford to beam at this stunt; today's showboat skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius...