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Trials. Most interesting to the committee was Harold S. Vanderbilt's brand new Rainbow. In the first race. Rainbow ghosted around a 17-mile course nearly three minutes ahead of Frederick H. Prince's Weetamoe. Gerard B. Lambert's old bronze Vanitie, built for the 1914 Cup races, which the War cancelled, came in far behind. Next day. Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and skippered by one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, came out for the first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there...
...official, races have to be finished in five and a half hours. The fourth trial, in flickering airs, lasted longer than five and a half, but when it was over, yachtsmen were less sanguine than they had been about Rainbow. Weetamoe, sailed by Richard Boardman, had beaten her off wind and on over a 34-mile course, by a mile and a half. There was an 18-mile breeze, just the kind of weather Yankee likes, for the fifth race but Skipper Adams went to the Harvard commencement exercises while Rainbow nosed out Weetamoe...
...light drizzle cancelled the next scheduled run. When racing was resumed, Yankee won by 58 sec. over a 28-mile triangle. In a collision just before the start, Rainbow's bow made a dent in Yankee's bronze plating...
...most useful friends to drink a bowl of hemlock. I refuse to help bind a Columbus of the New Deal with chains. I shall vote against the crucifixion, against the hemlock and the chains. . . . My act in so doing will be to me in future years- A rainbow to the storms of life: The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Thus did the Senate last week debate the fitness of Rexford Guy Tugwell, No. i Braintruster of the Roosevelt Administration, to be Undersecretary of Agriculture. Despite much tall talk of inquisitions, crucifixion...
...Riding On A Rainbow"--Brunswick, recorded in England. Ambrose's Embassy Club Orchestra trys a snappy spiritual Fox Trot with excellent results. Also "On A Steamer Coming Over," an insipid Fox Trot played by Ambrose's orchestra as if they were disgusted...