European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday april 13,1986 Maine Sailor docks in Triumph from press dispatches with bagpipes wheezing and children waving Ameri can flags Dodge Morgan of Maine completed a Solo voyage around the world Friday in just Iso Days slicing the previous record nearly in half. The 54-year-old businessman docked his 60-foot Cut Ter american Promise in the picturesque colonial town of st. Georges Bermuda at 1 05 p.m., ending a 27,500 that began nov. 12. Who Pic he shouted leaping in the air after tying up. His wife Marian and his two children Hoyt and Kimberley rushed to hug and kiss him and yacht de signer Ted Hood Shook his hand. I m going to stay ashore for a while Morgan said As the Bermuda regiment band played god save the Queen and for the first three weeks it was hard to break away. It was very painful. Then i got used to the Solitude he told reporters later. Morgan s ship flanked by a flotilla of Small boats was towed the last few Miles into the Harbor. About 500 people lined the shores. The 150-Day journey reduced by almost half the record for a Solo non Stop circumnavigation of the Globe. The previous record was set by englishman Chay Blyth who took 292 Days for the trip in 1971. Morgan said the Best part of the voyage was when he realized he could make it. About 45 Days out i knew i could succeed he said. I always slept very Well. I averaged a Good night s sleep. I did a lot of cleaning and spent hours and hours looking at Waves come by he said. There were times when my spirits were lower than they have Ever been in my life but they always came Back again. Usually they were the times when the hour a photo Dodge Morgan is greeted by his wife in Bermuda. Was t going Well. You train yourself to take one hour at a time one Day at a Morgan said one of the Best Days in the trip was when he saw Cape Horn. It was after that he said he saw Only two other boats. I was also amazed at How few living things there were. Birds Marine life i missed it All he said. But his two Way radios helped relieve some of the loneliness. I had two radios on the boat and talked to a lot of people. The Ham radio opera tors i made friends with were my social life he said. At least 85 other sailors have sailed around the world alone. Joshua Slocum made the first such recorded Voy age in 1898 in a 37-foot yacht he sailed from Boston. It took him three years. Morgan is the chairman of control sonics corp., an electronics manufacturer that he founded in 1971. His trip was financed by a dozen sponsors ranging from yacht maker Hood to Boston College psychology professors who Are studying the psychological Impact of extended Solitude. Peggy Lee Back in spotlight. Singer Peggy Lee returned to performing with a Brief concert that convinced critics she still had her voice and unmatched phrasing after a six month Layoff forced by a double heart bypass surgery. I want to thank you from the Bottom of my new heart Lee 65, told a sympathetic audience thursday at the Westwood playhouse in los an Geles where she is scheduled to perform until april 20. The show was Short with two 45-minute sets and Lee told the audience that she was cutting the last one Short by a couple of songs following her doctor s or Ders to Stop when she Felt tired. Slimmed Down Radiant in a White gown and coat with White fur trimmings wearing shades to relieve Eye Strain she simultaneously reassured a Iyone who May have been expecting visual or vocal signs of Wear and tear jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote in a concert review for the los Angeles times. Honest maid Furns in a 0,940 a maid who found almost $11,000 in Cash in a hotel room in Sherman Texas said Friday that she insisted that it be turned Over to the police because i Felt like in my heart that i had to do Carolyn Benedict 23, found the Money thursday in a Small Vinyl Pouch in a room at the ramada inn. Of Man my heart was beating so fast she said. I was standing there shaking thinking that i was going to have to go to the emergency room. I knew it was a Money bag but i did t know How much was in it. And then when 1 opened it up i thought there there was $5,000 in there instead there was $10,940, which she turned in to the hotel office. We thought maybe it was from a Lee Well heeled a photo policeman Thomas Feeley displays a lighter More comfortable shoe that new York City s uniformed officers now Are permitted to Wear. The shoes have plastic soles and soft leather uppers. Still on the list of unsuitable footwear however Are loafers top siders and Ballet slippers. Bank robbery Benedict said. Bart Mitchell the chief of records for the Sherman police department said Friday that a Man representing a business in Tulsa okla., contacted his office thurs Day to claim the Money. He said he did t realize it was missing until he got Back to Tulsa Mitchell said. Sherman police chief . Pickens said the Man s name would not be released until police confirmed the Cash was his. $400 for Cowee with governor a 15-minute Coffee break with Massachusetts gov. Michael s. Dukakis and his wife Kitty was Worth $400 to a bidder at a Benefit auction presided Over by actor Christopher Reeve the movie Superman. Maynard Goldman of Brookline the town in which the Dukas uses live bid $400 during a Benefit auction Friday night for the american repertory theater to have Coffee and danish at the governor s office. The High bid of the night was $3,500 for the right to be named As a character in the next novel by mystery writer Robert b. Parker the author of the Spenser detective series which formed the basis for the television show Spenser for he promises it won t be defamatory said the pro Gram but reserves the right to define the character s auction officials refused to identify the winning woman bidder. They said her name was a mystery. And. A Tow Story that min have bin Wilu to
