Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time for thumb-twiddling. Young Dr. Maxwell Kennedy of Nome found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...
...always done things the hard way, and the spectacular. When he was ordered to Hawaii, he bought a 40-foot sailboat, boned up on navigation, and sailed out. He still has a sailboat tied up against future leisure-the When and If, it is called...
...night last summer, a small sailboat crept out of Batavia. Aboard were three Dutchmen, the first and (so far) the only white men on record who have escaped from Java since the Japs took the island almost a year ago. Last week one of those Dutchmen, safe in the U.S., told what it was like to live under Japanese military rule...
Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...
Beautifully blonde Madeleine Carroll, who gave up the cinema for Sterling Hayden, who gave up the cinema to live on his sailboat, went to work for the United Seamen's Service as director of entertainment for all the merchant mariners' clubs and rest homes. Her office hours in Manhattan: 9 to 5 every day. Hayden is now master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering...