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While Barbara was aboard the Lurline. we were privileged to know her better than we have the vast majority of our fellow voyageurs during Sally's five and my twelve years' cruise experience. She vouchsafed us several personal and unusually laudable confidences that have caused us to love, cherish and admire her as we have few, if any, before her. Not only does she neither drink nor smoke, but if given half a chance by a morbidly curious, thoughtless world she could, without half trying, win it completely. An innate sweetness and native charm amply justify the plea...
...destroyer whizzed the President to the U. S. S. Indianapolis, waiting in U. S. waters off Eastport. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished, a salute gun barked 21 times and the seagoing President went rolling into the unknown as far as the nation was concerned for three days. No newshawks were aboard to report the hourly doings of Mr. Roosevelt, nor of his familiar Louis McHenry Howe, nor of Henry Morgenthau of the Farm Credit Administration, nor of Franklin Jr. and a lucky Groton friend. Not even the Navy Department knew the position of the Indianapolis from day to day. The cruiser...
...enter but hard to leave next morning when a balky motor refused to kick the little schooner out into the wind. Naval mechanics found a broken valve spring, had to send to Camden for a new one. The President did some public business with Private Secretary Early, who was aboard the Ellis, received two lobsters from an 87-year-oldster who claimed he was the oldest Democratic voter in Maine, signed a musty old hotel register just below ''U. S. Grant...
...possibility did not seem to cheer the retiring Commerce men as they clambered aboard the George Washington at Hamburg, Southampton and Havre with their wives, children and chattels. They promptly christened the boat "the ship of lost souls...
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...