Word: speedboats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antenor No. I. Suzy came by her Antenor circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue...
...snail-slow two-masted schooner, christened the Black Magic by Shirley May's pressagent Ted Worner (and later rechristened the Black Maria by disgusted newsmen). The Associated Press had wisely hired its own steamer, the Red Commodore (complete with a restaurant and bar), as well as a speedboat and plane, so it had six staffers on the spot...
...speedboat racer himself, Vincent once took such a battering from Gar Wood's backwash that he emerged from the cockpit of his boat black & blue, and groaned: "I'm through with this. I'll fly airplanes." Fly them he did until four years ago when he turned 65 and felt he "should depend . . . on the skill of someone else much younger." Packard is still depending on Vincent's skill. It set a postwar Packard record by selling 11,594 cars in March...
...Bandleader-Motorboater Guy Lombardo wound up in the choppy Detroit River just after the start of the first heat. He swung sharply to avoid a rival, flipped over, sailed 15 feet through the air, escaped with a broken arm and bruises. His $100,000 speedboat, Tempo VI, was almost a total loss; experts thought they might be able to salvage the engine...
Died. Jack ("Pop") Cooper, 68, wiry, white-thatched speedboat racer, two-time vinner of the U.S. National Sweepstakes Regatta (1937-40), onetime holder of every speed record for 225-cu.-in. hydroplanes; of injuries in a racing accident; in Syracuse...