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...Robin Moor's mate clambered aboard, met her captain waiting on the deck. Said the German, "Where are your papers?" The mate said: "You didn't ask me to bring them." Then the two officers disappeared down the hatch. Ten minutes later the mate was back. Said he: "They're going to let us have...
From the very start there was little doubt as to the eventual outcome. In the first ten strokes Bits Curwen paced his boat to a deck-length advantage, and the big Harvard shell kept the power on all the way down the course, going over the line a three-length victor...
...Germany. The man who heard the Kaiser's words was a U.S. journalist, William Bayard Hale of the New York Times. They were aboard the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, at anchor in the fjord of Bergen, Norway, one July evening in 1908, and the Kaiser stalked the deck in the gold braid of an Admiral of the German High Seas Fleet. He spoke English, in which he was fluent, and sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer and lowered his voice confidentially, sometimes he raised his one good arm and shook his forefinger under Hale's nose. Hale suppressed...
...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...
...pulled away to win by three lengths, leaving Kirkland and Adams to fight it out for second place. First leading, then trailing its rival all the way down the course, Kirkland finally turned on the necessary power to gain second place and another crack at the winners by a deck length margin over the Gold Coasters...