Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because officials of the Royal Henley Regatta in England have suddenly relaxed their rule against professional coaches at their annual classic Coach Haines of the Fifties will be aboard when they sail on June...
...lightweight swingers will be paying their own way with the aid of an unnamed graduate and will set sail on June 15. The Athletic Committee which will not officially approve the venture until its June 5 session, hopes to arrange it so that Captain George Meyer's boat will take the crossing on the same boat with the Eli Fifties...
Last week when the Nieuw Amsterdam set sail, the renascent Holland-America Line had already been able to pay back in full the Government's "20year" loan, and only a successful maiden voyage was needed to make black ink blacker still. Half way across the Atlantic, the Nieuw Amsterdam ran into genuine rough weather. Officials aboard beamed with satisfaction. She proved not only seaworthy but exceptionally steady. Three days later, however, they discovered an error in their careful Dutch calculations: Designed to make 21½ knots, the Nieuw Amsterdam did 23 without pushing and as a "seven-day ship...
Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...
Author-Critic Henry Louis Mencken quit his short-time job as editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun (TIME, Feb. 21), went to Manhattan, where he attended a cocktail party given by Lecturer Sally Rand (see p. 56), got ready to sail for a vacation in Nazi Germany...