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...morning this week a ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard. It was captained by a famed racing yacht skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus...
...cheeked, rotund Joseph C. Lincoln's 30-odd novels all have their quotas of clambakes, oilskins and "characters." "The average summer boarder," says dry-spoken Innkeeper Seth Hammond Ownley, "is forever hunting 'characters' and forgetting to look in the looking glass for a specimen." Novelist Lincoln, now 69, comes of a seafaring Cape family, was once a commercial artist. To make his drawings sell better, he wrote verses and jokes to go with them. Soon the verses outsold the pictures. Cap'n Eri, his first novel, was a bestseller in 1904; he has been publishing bestsellers...
...time to chase a lot of rats out of the State pantry," shouted the Rev. Carl F. Lueg, Methodist pastor of Hammond, La. "Business is picking up, eh, boys?" to newshawks said huge, rich ex-Governor Richard W. ("Dick") Leche, who turned the ruins of the old Huey Long machine over to Brother Earl Long in the nick of time...
Charles P. Hammond '39, Captain
...Charles P. Hammond '39, Captain...