Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation for the Legion of Merit says that he saved the Government "billions." Says Smith: "I honestly think it's a misprint." He now commutes to Philadelphia from his 60-acre farm, likes to ride horseback and sail his 45-ft. yawl Cherry Blossom...
...everything that money could buy, including a 27-ft. sloop, which he christened Trimethy (after trimethylene chloride) and liked to sail when the wind and the waves were highest. A frail, good-looking kid, he picked up dysentery one summer, "chasing rocks" in Europe, and had to be shipped home on a stretcher...
This month, with Newsday hitting the street on clockwork schedule, Miz Patterson will sail for Europe and a spell of reporting. With her will go her friend, Publisher Dorothy Thackrey of the New Dealing, pro-Zionist New York Post. Alicia has plenty of plans to keep her busy when she gets back. The Guggenheims are going into radio at Bridgeport, Conn., and some day Alicia would like to surround New York City with Newsdays in Westchester and New Jersey. "There are a few papers here & there," she says with a predatory glint, "that I'd like to compete with...
...following week they came up fifth out of 12 in the ICYRA Danmark Trophy sail-offs at New London, but still trailed Coast Guard, Yale, and M.I.T., who appear to be the toughest competitors in the East. This has been the pattern in two succeeding races also, the Crimson finishing close behind the M.I.T. in the greater Boston dinghy and the ICYRA Pentagonal Regatta...
...magnificent landscape. The greatest satisfaction of this picture is continuous and unobtrusive. It is the constancy with which all outdoors, and all human endurance of it and effort to conquer it, keeps bulging the screen full of honest and beautiful vitality, like a steady wind against a well-trimmed sail...