Guess Who's Dead
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.
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John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74

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Source: The New York Times
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