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...feverishly preparing for the July 1 festivities. Shops along Hole-in-the-Wall Street are chock full of souvenirs: badges and bookmarks, cuff links and key chains, pennants and princely paperbacks. Up at the castle, the clanging carpenters' hammers echo as grandstands rise. By the time the Prince arrives???along with 200,000 less exalted visitors?the town should be more or less fit for a king...
Before Endeavour left Gosport, England last fortnight Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. received a cable: "Can you please refit Endeavour when she arrives???Sopwith." Although it is contrary to custom for a challenger and defender to be refitted at the same yards, the shipyard cabled that it would be pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder...
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