Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, her decks awash with some 120 of the international set's most solvent globetrotters, the Achilleus set sail from Venice to tour the Isles of Greece. On her quarterdeck, resplendent in the blue-and-gold of what seemed to be the official uniform of a six-star admiral of the Nepalese navy, stood Elsa herself. "We're going to see Greece, and Greece is going to see us," she shouted as 50 cases of champagne were stowed away in the ship's hold. But, despite the wine, Admiral Elsa insisted, the Achilleus cruise...
...flossy Venice hotel, tireless Party-girl Elsa Maxwell, 72, busied herself with last-minute arrangements for an aristocratic cruise, slated to sail from Venice next week to nose about Greece and its islands. On the celebrity-jammed roster of some 120 guests: Scotland's Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, Prince Aly Khan, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland. Conspicuously uninvited: the Duchess of Windsor, once one of Elsa's best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous...
Columbus had been given the proud title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, but his rewards could more accurately be measured in abuse than in wealth or glory. Amerigo was made Pilot Major by King Ferdinand for all of Spain, and no captain could sail without the certificate that Amerigo alone could issue. His voyages may have been as epochal as Author Arciniegas says they were, but for centuries one school of historians has held that he chivvied his friend Columbus out of his due. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "strange . . . that broad America must wear the name...
After the war, with the growing demand for a sleek, easily handled racing yacht, Uffa Fox came into his own. He designed the "Flying Fifteen,": a slim. 20-ft.-keel sloop carrying 155 sq. ft. of sail, with a planing hull. By 1948 the Flying Fifteens were the rage among racers (including Prince Philip), became a standard feature at Cowes. With more than 2.000 Fox-designed yachts afloat throughout the world (but few in the U.S.), Uffa has no trouble keeping up his credit at the pubs of Gowes. When the weather prohibits sailing, he rides Frantic, his mare, around...
...heels. For this the Queen could hand Sir Walter his head, but by this time she is so encumbered with other worries that she just gives him a ship and his lady and tells them to get the hell out of town. Fadeout: Raleigh, his arm around Beth, sets sail for America to get his face on a million tobacco cans; back at the palace Queen Elizabeth, old and dejected carries...