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That seemed to put Jay Franklin in his place and Harry Truman squarely on the old course. But it didn't answer all the questions. What kind of man was the new Secretary of State, and what kind of course would he sail...
Last fortnight, just as the Marlin was to sail from St. Lucia, a woman screamed that someone had stolen her demijohn. When police went aboard the Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
...procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation for the Legion of Merit says that he saved the Government "billions." Says Smith: "I honestly think it's a misprint." He now commutes to Philadelphia from his 60-acre farm, likes to ride horseback and sail his 45-ft. yawl Cherry Blossom...
...when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold out for a sum on which he was able to live for much of his life...
...everything that money could buy, including a 27-ft. sloop, which he christened Trimethy (after trimethylene chloride) and liked to sail when the wind and the waves were highest. A frail, good-looking kid, he picked up dysentery one summer, "chasing rocks" in Europe, and had to be shipped home on a stretcher...