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Vanitie v. Resolute. Outboards, dinghies, canoes and purring launches teemed among a great flock of sleek sailing ships in Morris Cove, Conn. (New Haven) as the New York Yacht Club fleet made ready for the gold-star event of U. S. yachting. Early one morning, a tall, slightly stooped man stepped to the bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan...
...married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior on a round-the-world honeymoon. When the Prince of Wales visited the U. S. in 1919, he was Mr. Williams' guest at Glen Cove, L. I. Last May Mr. Williams bought the late Elbert H. Gary's house at 5th Avenue and 94th St., Manhattan...
...first slim indication of a comparison between the Harvard and Yale University crews came today when each boat covered the four mile course rowing against the watch. The Crimson eight, taking to the water first, spun down the four miles from Bartlett's Cove to the railroad bridge at a beat of 25 strokes to the minute in 22 minutes 17 seconds, The tide and a light breeze aided the Harvard oarsmen...
Were planting sods and shrubs as easy as replacing divots, Newsgatherer Bath might have been on hand last week-end to see a big amphibian plane sweep down Penobscot Bay, scutter into the Morrow cove and give forth some of the most Hearstworthy people of the hour - Mrs. Morrow and her secretary, her daughters Anne, Elizabeth & Constance, and Pilot Lindbergh...
...last week a sudden spatter of rain drove Rye Cove school children into their plain board study-rooms before the noon recess ended. They were just wriggling themselves quiet in their seats when, down the valley, came a loud howling noise. The sky blackened. A monster wind came twisting between the mountains. It swooped down, caught at the schoolhouse, ripped off the roof, scrunched the rest of it to bits, scattered things insanely. Then it went roaring away, up over the ridge...