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Word: boatful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, 15 musicians boarded a swanboat decked with flowers and shrubs, and performed Handel's "Water Music" Suite while the boat sailed around the Public lagoon under floodlights, with thousands of people lining the banks all around. It was an amusing gimmick, but it badly misfired. Whenever the boat got 75 or so yards away, the strings and woodwinds became totally inaudible and one could hear only the two horns and, in the finale, the two trumpets. The basic idea was not bad; the choice of music...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Boston Arts Festival Called General Success | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Shells and wherries for boating on the Charles may be procured at the Weld Boat House on Memorial Drive. Lockers, towels, and instruction are also all available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Planned | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...dock fees, though the only visible armament was a line-throwing gun. Caterers began loading on such supplies as champagne and cracked crab, and the master came aboard-but in bad temper from all the publicity. "Zsa Zsa Gabor is not giving a party on my boat," Ramfis snapped. "We will entertain." an aide explained, "but the general will be the host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Young Man Goes West | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jürgens) tangling in a running fracas sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Pushbutton Camper. An experimental station wagon for campers, with a boat, tent, refrigerator, two-burner stove, sink with hot and cold running water, shower and curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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