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...Conn., June 7--The Harvard crew enjoyed a brief vacation today when the whole squad were the guests of J. P. Morgan '89 on his yacht "Corsair." This annual treat marked a day of complete freedom for the rowers and was a welcome respite from the workouts the oarsmen have had since they came...
With great though respectful excitement British editors and even the House of Commons discussed last week this question: Can Pope Pius XI so contrive that John Pierpont Morgan will be unable to take the Archbishop of Canterbury on a "sunshine cruise" to the Holy Land in his yacht Corsair...
...Roman Catholics. At Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglican ecclesiastics contented themselves with stating that the Primate of All England has been suffering for months with neuralgia. The fact that Dr. Lang's great & good friend Banker Morgan has invited him to bask upon the Corsair and cruise to Palestine they called "most opportune from the health point of view...
Launched. At Bloehm & Voss's yards in Hamburg, Germany, for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader of Philadelphia: Savarona, biggest yacht in the world, 407 ft. 10 in. (65 ft. longer than John Pierpont Morgan's new Corsair, 74 ft. longer than Julius Forstmann's Orion), with turbine engines developing 7,200 h. p., a speed of 17 knots, a crew of 100, built (with a gyrostabilizer) to look like a little ocean liner. Estimated cost...
...When the Corsair, trim, black yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, was returning from a cruise through the Caribbean, it put in at Miami, Fla. Photographer Ralph Willetts of the Miami News, who has recorded the features of innumerable Florida visitors, determined to lense-catch Mr. Morgan, most elusive of celebrities. He learned, after being chased away, that at 9 o'clock one morning Mr. Morgan's sister-in-law, Mrs. Stephen Van R. Crosby, would go ashore to entrain for the North. Photographer Willetts posted himself close to the Corsair. A fellow reporter placed himself nearby in evidence...