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...been going down to the sea in yachts ever since he was a boy in Charleston, S.C. In 1908, after working up to be assistant paymaster on the New York Central Railroad, Stone changed his course abruptly. At 36, he took the helm of Yachting, which his friend Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, had started the year before. Editor Stone decided to make Yachting more popular by doing the same for yachting: he gave a big boost to ocean racing, revived the famed Bermuda Race...
...misplay. Another regular is Air Secretary Harold Talbott. who has a competitive spirit to match Ike's, and plays an equally smart game. Among occasional players: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith; Banker Clifford Roberts; Newspaper Executive William E. Robinson, Bridge Master Oswald Jacoby. (Says Jacoby: "The President plays better bridge than golf; he tries to break 90 at golf; at bridge you would say he plays...
...Gruenther's biggest moment among the masters: the grudge match between Ely Culbertson and Sydney S. Lenz (partners included Mrs. Culbertson and Oswald Jacoby), in which Lieut. Gruenther, then an instructor at West Point, acted as referee...
Among the latest refugees from East Germany to arrive in West Berlin was Fraulein Gertrud Spengler, sister of the late, famed German philosopher Oswald (Decline of the West) Spengler...
...unnoticed, with a mere handful of henchmen. Strictly business, the generalissimo swept into the headquarters building with outriders brushing reporters and newsreel photographers out of his path. Turning into a small lounge, Trujillo shook hands with Maurice Pate, executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, new U.S. delegate to the U.N. In a swift ceremony witnessed mainly by his aides, the generalissimo presented Pate with a $50,000 check, last installment of $250,000 pledged during Mrs. Lord's 1948 good-will visit to the republic on the fund's behalf...