Word: whiton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Williams hobby is marine exploration. In connection with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and Henry D. Whiton, and under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, he financed Explorer William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In 1920 he bought the Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior...
Brandeis--Greenberg, Goff v. Williston--Smith, Whiton...
From Oyster Bay, Long Island, to Oslo, Norway, sailed the Lanai, a boat six metres (not quite 20 ft.) long, frail as an egg. It sailed in the hold of an ocean liner and when, in Oslo, Owner Herman Whiton saw its burlap wrappings undone and the racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf
Princeton Bow, Linsser: 2, Cooley; 3, Thompson; 4, Whiton; 5, Read; 6, Krag; 7, Cromwell; stroke, Hawkins; coxswain, Harry...
Princeton -- Stroke, Hawkins; 7, Cromwell; 6, Krag; 5, Read; 4, Whiton; 3, Thompson; 2, Cooley; bow, Zinsser; cox., Barry...