Word: sailboating
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...saddening to learn that only 9% of U.S. boatmen are sailboat enthusiasts. Even more so to conclude that the remaining 91% fail to experience or comprehend the beauty and sense of satisfaction a sailor receives when he combines his skill with the forces of nature to make white sails glide...
...Self. Hopper's search for self has been long, arduous and undeviating. It began in the town of Nyack, N.Y.. up the Hudson River from Manhattan. There he was a bookish, gawky, well-bred boy-the son of a scholarly and unbusinesslike merchant-who built his own sailboat at the age of twelve. Five years later he enrolled in Robert Henri's art school on Manhattan's 57th Street. Henri was the presiding genius of an American art movement sneeringly dubbed the "Ash Can School." Instead of the vapid, idealistic studio pictures then in favor...
...Sinking in a sailboat off Catalina Island, Calif., three Roman Catholic priests were rescued by a passing tuna boat. "We were so busy pumping out water," one of them reported, "that we didn't have time to think about praying...
Pollard's L-shaped dream house has a glass-walled living room with a view of lofty Mt. Tamalpais on one side and the incomparable San Francisco skyline on the other. Just outside is a bulkhead-type dock, flanked by a slip for Pollard's Penguin-class sailboat, in which he skims over the Belvedere lagoon...
...created a Union of High School Students (U.E.S.) and turned over to its girls' division the 124-acre presidential estate at Olivos, a Buenos Aires suburb. "Just call me Pocho," Perón told the girls, and he came often to watch the basketball, skating and sailboat racing, or to award wallets containing 500-peso notes to graduates of the classes in dancing, gymnastics and drama. On one such occasion, he met green-eyed Nelly, a janitor's daughter. Perón, who also called himself the "Immortal Widower," gave Nelly jewels from his late wife...