Word: foto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like an eager duck bobbing after great white swans, a venerable, 33-ft. cabin cruiser named Foto last week followed the four sleek 12-meter yachts sailing over the course near Newport, R.I. Skittering across the yachts' bows, hovering a few yards off their lee rails, Foto followed every tack and tactic of the observation trials that will help select the boat to defend the America's Cup against the British in September...
...blue-jacketed racing official waved the intruding cruiser off the course, no skipper turned to bellow. Everyone knew that Foto was commanded by Morris ("Rosy") Rosenfeld of City Island, N.Y., the world's No. 1 marine photographer.* After more than 60 years of shooting boats, Rosy knew just how close to get to the race without bothering the skippers. He alone had full freedom of the course, while his landlubber rivals in other boats scrambled for inferior sites...
...Morgan once smashed Rosy's camera with a cane when Rosy tried to sneak a shot of the old yachtsman coming ashore from his famed Corsair. Photographing yachts in all kinds of weather, Rosy has hung by one hand from a halyard and thudded his skull against Foto's deck, but has never gone overboard...
...Under a photo in the New York Daily News of Pope Pius X (see RELIGION): "Stork Club foto...