Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YEARS ago, before crushing income taxes, a Wall Street customer's man shrewdly invited a prospective client out to his yacht club, and there, so goes the story, proudly pointed out a dazzling harbor filled with his and other stockbrokers' yachts. "Mighty fine," said the dubious client, "but where are the customers' yachts?" As of last week, with 30 million Americans sailing almost 6,000,000 boats of all kinds in the greatest boating boom of all time, Wall Street's customers-along with U.S. butchers, bakers and candlestick makers-had enough yachts to swamp Wall...
Fifteen years after he was retired and charged with dereliction of duty, and almost 13 years after a court of inquiry cleared him of blame, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 75, four-star commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, was honored by his Annapolis classmates. Last week, in an election hailed by the Naval Academy's alumni magazine as "an affirmation of faith by those who have known him well for more than 50 years," Admiral Kimmel was named alumni president of the class...
...paid. In London, Lloyds Underwriter Felix Fenston, who had ballasted the project with $98,000, jumped ship because the Mayflower promoters had not turned the vessel over to a charitable foundation, as planned. There was hope of fresh cash from rubbernecking admissions during a proposed stay in New York Harbor, but even here the long arm of Old World oppression threatened the hardy ship: back in England, Tugboat Owner Ernest Lister instructed his solicitor to have the Mayflower II seized for unpaid towing fees...
...Pilgrims' pride was not wholly fulfilled. Before Mayflower II would dock permanently near the site of-Plymouth Rock, the ship would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from...
...might have guessed, very little was to become of it. The Trojans called for 20 principal singers, two choruses, ten different sets, hunters on horseback, ships moving out of a harbor, naiads swimming in "a natural basin," a stream that becomes "a roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse. With the creaky stage equipment of the 19th century, the giant workrivaling Wagner's marathons in sizecould not be performed in much less than seven hours. Berlioz himself heard it only in truncated form, and since his death it has never been given...