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...test Cook by inviting him to dinner and describing the Resolution's new assignment. Despite the fact that his wife Elizabeth was pregnant with their third child. Cook immediately volunteered. Since then, he has been gathering adventurous young crewmen like Astronomer James King, former Dartmouth Student John Ledyard, and Sailing Master William Bligh. Says Cook: "I embark on as fair a prospect as I can wish...
...horse that everyone was focusing on was going through a series of trots and halts. I fumbled through my Ledyard '75 (the official name of the trials) handbook: move number 14, "serpentine three loops, the first and third true canter, the second counter-canter." Counter-canter, I thought sort of a ring to it, but what does it mean...
...honorary committee of Ledyard '75 was a near-exact replica of the Social Registry. From the Hon. and Mrs. Standish Bradford through the Davenports, the Hallowells, the Peabodys and Saltonstalls, to the pride and joy of Hamilton, General George S. Patton, son of Gen. Blood and Guts Patton himself. Hamilton even has a Patton Park or some such memorial complete with a bronze tank...
Pounding hoofs and the echoing of English accents filled the air of the Ledyard farm. Announcements traced the horses through the course for the gallery, and as one lady put it. "It's something like a golf match-you must be still near the jumps but otherwise you can wander at will...
Harvard is trying to find alternate uses for its crew training quarters at Ledyard, Conn...