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...races that almost no one does. Last week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly out of sight of most of this huge de luxe flotilla, which was policed far off the course, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger was racing Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour for the hideous 86-year-old silver pitcher which is the most prized sporting trophy in the world...
Past such colorful names as Skipjack, Puffin, Foxhound, Esk, Fearless, Wild Swanand Escapade the royal flotilla passed, with each ship, swathed in flags, banging out a 21-gun salute, her crew hand in hand, lining the rails...
Until this year, most U. S. Cup yachts were built not by single individuals but by syndicates. The Sopwith system is not to build single yachts but to maintain a flotilla. Towing Endeavour I to the U. S. is the motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means...
...this episode was reaching its climax, into the Keelung police station marched Lieut. T. A. Pack-Beresford of the British flotilla leader Bruce, to demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...
...suddenly changed his northerly course, struck eastward across the choppy waters of the Bay of Fundy on the longest open-water sail he had taken since boyhood. Thirty hours later he had covered 125 miles, dropped anchor off Cape Sable on Nova Scotia's southern tip. As the flotilla headed north next day the President's prayer for fog was answered (TIME, July 20), but it was not heavy enough to let him escape the stream of dispatches convoyed from the Hopkins at every stop. Off the tiny fishing village of Shelburne on Sunday he woke...