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...group had bought enough Avco stock to remove La Motte T. Cohû from the company's presidency (TIME, Dec. 19). A compromise board of 16 directors, still bankerish, was formed. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, Hayden, Stone partner and board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, an athletic, motorboat-racing man cut much like Motormaker Cord though more refined, was put in temporarily as president. Mr. Cord & associates continued to buy Avco shares. Bankers Robert Lehman and William Averell Harriman, after their hot and losing proxy fight with Cord last autumn, had no heart to fight longer. Last week, when it became...
...When his motorboat was smashed on an Adriatic reef near Pola, the Duke of Spoleto, cousin to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, swam back from the safety of the shore to rescue his companion, a Lieutenant Cavalli...
...might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac...
...have a hard time getting insured against sporting injuries. Most companies will pay only part of an accident policy's values for injuries incurred at games or in the hunting field. A man who admits that he plays polo constantly, rides to hounds, steeplechases or drives a racing motorboat, is lucky to get a policy at all. Three years ago it occurred to smart Peter Vischer, editor of Polo, that insurance specially intended for sportsmen would be popular. Three of his friends-Charles Miner of the Litchfield County Hunt, Reginald C. M. Peirce, who played polo for Squadron...
Never in the history of motorboat races for the Harmsworth Cup (put up by the late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled...