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Atlantic, Azara, Elena, Guienerve, Zodiac. Pleasant names. They belong to big racing schooners. John Pierpont Morgan on board his own black yacht the Corsair watched them as they lolled pleasantly among darting little put-puts, just off Sandy Hook. For two-and-a-half hours they lolled and jockeyed now and then; finally along came a breath of breeze and the five big schooners moved toward Santander, Spain, 3,055 miles across the sea. They were racing for the King Alfonso...
Today the entire Harvard crew corps went aboard the yacht "Corsair" at the invitation of its owner Mr. J. P. Morgan '89, to be entertained with a cruise down Long Island Sound. The weather was bright and warm and in the forenoon, the "Corsair" anchored in a sheltered bay where the oarsmen took advantage of a quickly rigged diving boom and indulged in an hour of swimming and moderate exercise...
...other passengers had clumped down the gangplank, Mr. Morgan, who had successfully maintained an incognito all the way over, slipped ashore, was met by Partner Thomas W. Lamont, and descended in a freight elevator. For the past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau County Grand Jury at Mineola...
...that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont Morgan, who is now cruising in Turkish waters on his yacht Corsair (TIME, April...
John Pierpont Morgan sailed into the Golden Horn near Stamboul, Turkey, on his yacht Corsair. His cousin, Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, had arranged to have the daughter of a onetime Governor of Jerusalem take Mr. Morgan on a Turkish sightseeing tour...