Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blustery storm out of the South bothered Harry Truman, he gave no outward sign of it. But inwardly he felt some sinking sensations last week. They came from another storm: a 40-knot northeast wind that whipped up ten-foot waves and tossed, the presidential yacht Williamsburg around like a cockleshell under a bathtub faucet...
Color: Green. The big blow hit the Williamsburg directly abeam as she turned into narrow Windward Passage between Haiti and Cuba. Newsmen on the sturdier, broader-beamed Greenwich Bay, preceding the presidential craft, radiotelephoned the Williamsburg: "Can you give us any local color?" The reply: "Only what you can see looking out over...
Collecting customers was harder, until Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought a comprehensive cross-section for Williamsburg, Va. Nowadays museum directors come from Wichita and even Hawaii to buy Edith Halpert's wares, at markups ranging from 100 to 1.000%. They do their choosing behind closed doors in her Downtown Gallery (in midtown Manhattan), which specializes in such U.S. contemporaries as Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine, while turning its real profits from folk...
...Williamsburg, Va., the A.P.'s Kent Cooper told a newsmen's banquet that it was not that simple: government control of the press would obviously mean political control. The U.S. press would stay free, he said, provided it kept nothing from the people, and kept "defending the right of all to express their views through the printed word...
...left for a weekend cruise on the presidential yacht Williamsburg, Harry Truman looked preoccupied and tired...