Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have picked a better week to get away from steamy Washington. Dressed in an old, beat-up pair of pants, an open-necked shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the most comfortable shoes he could find, the President lolled on the fantail of his big white yacht, the Williamsburg, and took his ease. When he was so minded, he shed the shirt and built...
...week's end, the President shucked off visitors and boarded his yacht, the Williamsburg for a leisurely nine-day cruise in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Truman finds in the Williamsburg one of the few places on earth where he can relax with his friends in privacy. If Harry Truman is sent back to Missouri next January, undoubtedly the thing he will miss most will be the yacht...
...Sailed up to Annapolis aboard the Williamsburg, brought good luck to Navy athletes, who swept their "June Week" crew races with Cornell, walloped the Army baseball team 10-to-0 as the President whirred away with his movie camera...
...plot begins with the murder of a blonde in an apartment on West 83rd Street and ends with the murderer's demise about a week later on the Williamsburg Bridge. In between is an intricate, tense story involving a number of jewel thieves and two untiring detectives. The camera roams pleasantly over most of New York as the detectives close in, and Albert Maltz, the scriptwriter, has even provided moments of comic relief in his caressing tour of the city...
Aboard the Williamsburg, almost everybody in the President's party was seeing green without looking at the sea. But Harry Truman" did pretty well. When he went ashore a few hours later at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, in Cuba, he alone looked fit. Said the President: "I stood up all right for the simple reason that I didn't get up. I stayed...