Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...
...Chicago holdings, and to have been one of the few to liquidate before the 1929 crash; his son, Norman Prince (strictly forbidden to fly by F. H.) was a leader in organizing the famed Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in action; in 1934, he bought the big sloop Weetamoe for the America's Cup defense, was soundly beaten by both Yankee and Rainbow; besides a fox-hunting estate in Pau, France, he owns a Paris town house, the $2,000,000 "Marble Palace" in Newport, R. I., the 1,000-acre, many-roomed "Princemere" in Pride's Crossing, Mass...
...crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last day of Cowes Week, Vanderbilt and his Vim were...
Last year, when asked why he named his lovely new sloop Goose (reputedly a foolish fowl), 61-year-old Sailor Nichols chirped: "Because it seems a bit foolish to go into the keen six-meter competition at my age." Last week George Nichols demonstrated that he and his Goose were anything but foolish: they outsmarted the Scandinavians at their own game in their home waters, won the Gold Cup in three straight races for the second year in a row. On both sides of the Atlantic, Goose was hailed as the world's fastest small boat, George Nichols...
...later under James Earle Fraser, Libéro Andreotti and Alexander Archipenko. Brown-eyed, dark-banged, slight and lively, she has worked and taught for years in a roomy studio on Manhattan's West 22nd Street. Summers, she and her father, Herbert Putnam, knock around in a sloop at North Haven, Me. Most of the last three years she has devoted to her book...