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Grace has already awarded construction contracts on two of the ships to Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. The two will be 19,238-ton, 308-passenger, air-conditioned liners to replace Grace's Sartta Rosa and Santa Paula. Cost: $22,540,000 apiece, of which the Maritime Board will put up $9,485,000, the difference between U.S. and foreign construction costs...
This game will be the first played by a Crimson team on California soil since the varsity football team opened its '49 season with a 44-0 loss to Stanford. Since then, the Yacht Club has twice sailed to second place in the Intercollegiate Dinghy Championships hold in Newport Harbor, Calif...
Died. Archer Milton Huntington, 85, multimillionaire founder, with his family, of 13 U.S. museums, including Newport News's Mariners' Museum, Manhattan's Hispanic Society, son of Collis P. H. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific railway; in Bethel, Conn...
...Nicholas Brown (once renowned as "the world's richest baby"), to boat-loving Swedish Shipping Magnate Sven Salen, whose line of six-meter yachts (all christened Maybe) is a perennial threat in Eastern U.S. sailing contests. Price paid for Bolero, Class A winner of the 1950 and 1954 Newport-to-Bermuda races, was undisclosed. Her original cost...
...bullring aficionado. Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...