Dr. Seaman, who is director of the Center for Visual Anthropology at USC, has already created, with his colleague Homer Williams, a research archive of about 40 CD-ROM's on the Yanomamo Indians of South America, who have been studied for 32 years by Dr. Napoleon Chagnon, anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Esther Eaton, advertising director at Seaman Furniture, one of The News's major advertisers, called Express "a great vehicle," adding, "There's difference between a penny-saver type vehicle and a real newspaper".
The bride's father is a director of Seamans Capital Management, an investment company in Waltham, Mass.
Dr. Seamans joined the Radio Corporation of America in 1955 as director of its missile electronics and control division, a position he held until joining NASA in 1960.
Both he and Patrick Ryan, who was the operations director for the ferries, pleaded guilty to seaman's manslaughter and were sentenced to prison.
The problem, the Seamans believe, is that Gateway recently got a new director, and the environmentalists and bird lovers have the ear of the new administration.
The city's former director of ferry operations, Patrick Ryan, pleaded guilty to seaman's manslaughter in April 2005 for failing to enforce the two-pilot rule; he was sentenced to a year in prison.
As Shea remembered, "Seamans gave a copy of Houbolt's letter to Brainerd Holmes [the director of OMSF].
But Mr. Seaman has hired serious design experts like Gerard Benatar, formerly vice president and fashion director for Macy's furniture.
Bearded, in a dark navy coat, he has a seaman's wrinkles from time in the wind and sun, the way directors in Southern Europe should look.
Over the years, O'Toole's many film roles included a 19th-century seaman (in "Lord Jim"), a shy schoolmaster (in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"), a flamboyantly autocratic movie director (in "The Stunt Man"), a faded alcoholic movie swashbuckler (in "My Favorite Year") and England's King Henry II — twice — (in "Becket" and "The Lion in Winter").
