He ran off to sea, as a boy. Sailed the tall ships (clipper ships) plying the Atlantic trade winds route. He retired in his seventies,
became an elderly male model for ads in Life and Look magazines, gave up his New York State drivers license at his 100th birthday party, then went to see an old girlfriend in California. He traveled by train because he feared airplanes. Having met up with the lady, they boarded a freighter to Caracas Venezuela where he got into the Chess Masters., but left because (he said) that it was like spearing fish in a barrel. (He spent over 68 years at sea mostly playing chess as a pass time). I believe that he passed away in an automobile accident just off the NJ side of the George Washington Bridge at age 106.
became an elderly male model for ads in Life and Look magazines, gave up his New York State drivers license at his 100th birthday party, then went to see an old girlfriend in California. He traveled by train because he feared airplanes. Having met up with the lady, they boarded a freighter to Caracas Venezuela where he got into the Chess Masters., but left because (he said) that it was like spearing fish in a barrel. (He spent over 68 years at sea mostly playing chess as a pass time). I believe that he passed away in an automobile accident just off the NJ side of the George Washington Bridge at age 106.
