Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Race. On a 23-mi. triangular course started: Whirlwind, owned by Paul L. Hammond's and Langdon Ketchum Thome's syndicate, a beamy, heavy boat with a white hull and green underbody, a pointed stern and "No. 3" on her sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark...
Third Race. Again five big sets of sails grouped; spread along the course, now off Oyster Bay. Weetamoe, handled by Skipper Nichols, again first crossed the finish line. Whirlwind, running close behind, split her mainsail, forced Skipper Langdon Thorne to allow the Enterprise to slip past into second place at the very end of the race. Third: Whirlwind. Fourth: Resolute. Fifth: Vanitie...
June 13?Trial race of U. S. America's Cup defenders; at Glen Cove, L. I. Probable starters: Enterprise, Resolute, Vanitie, Weetamoe, Whirlwind, Yankee...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
June 13?Trial race of U. S. America's Cup defenders; at Glen Cove. L. I. Probable starters: Enterprise, Resolute, Vanitie, Weetamoe, Whirlwind, Yankee...