Word: shinn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, with frostbite already showing on Dufek's nose, the party stomped back into the airplane, its engines still turning over. But when Pilot Conrad Shinn gunned his engines and fired four JATO (jet assist) bottles for takeoff, the R4D stuck fast, its skis frozen to the icy surface. Only by blasting off his eleven remaining JATO bottles did Shinn wrench the plane loose and stagger into the thin air at well below normal take-off speed. Back at McMurdo, Dufek ordered establishment of the Siple camp delayed for two weeks ("If it was too cold...
...Gramercy Park, owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney ('22), Painter George Bellows has caught with bold brush strokes a golden instant of a summer day, quickened for today's viewers by nostalgia for that quieter age. Everett Shinn, one of the original Ash Can Eight, recorded another facet of the feather boa era in Trapeze, owned by Wall Streeter Arthur Goodhart Altschul ('43). A painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration...
Three weeks later, Sportsmen Clifford Shinn, John Baker and Emil Johnson were flying home to Los Angeles in Shinn's Piper Cub after a Mexican fishing trip. At a point 38 air miles south of the fishing village of San Felipe on Mexico's Gulf of California (190 miles south of the border), Shinn spotted a small plane on the desert. He landed near...
...Clifford Shinn and his friends tried to take off to notify Mexican authorities. Loose sand bogged them down. Baker and Johnson got out. Shinn took off alone, then landed to try taking his friends again. A tire blew out. Shinn's plane was now useless. Without food or water, the men decided to walk the 60-mile ground route over rocky sands beneath the terrible sun to San Felipe, the hamlet Bill Falls apparently never knew existed...
They walked all night. They walked all the next day. When Shinn reached San Felipe ahead of his lagging companions 24 hours later, he was hysterical and nearly blind. In his hand was Bill Falls's notebook. He had carried...