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Balked by a Coast Guard cutter in his attempt to reach Florida by canoe, Richard W. Hourtley '40 returned yesterday afternoon to his mother at Darien, Connecticut.
After five days on the water in his 18-foot canoe, 17-year-old Heurtley was picked up only 30 miles from his starting point. Paddling night and day because it was too cold to sleep, the former Harvard student cooked some bacon one night, and the rest of the time ate bread, chocolate, and apples.
Young Hourtley had planned to voyage on the inland coast waterway. "I would have made it, too, if it hadn't been for the confounded Coast Guard," he said.
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