Peter Pauling with his parents, ca. 1950s.

“This tub moves steadily but slowly along.” So wrote Peter Pauling in a letter to his mother, Ava Helen Pauling, riding somewhere in the Atlantic in the hull of a cargo ship that had been built in 1926. “It took us two and a half days to reach the open sea.”

Read the rest of Peter Pauling: The Race that Wasn’t, 1952.