Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honored by the Williamsburg Settlement of Brooklyn with a gold medal for "her great efforts to transpose the ideals of social justice into realities": Eleanor Roosevelt. Principal speaker at a gathering of 1,200 people to pay her honor: Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, former Republican Representative from Connecticut, who called Mrs. Roosevelt "the best-loved woman in the world today." Said Mrs. Luce: "Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed...
...Williamsburg, Va. he strolled the streets hatless, admiring the colonial architecture while other tourists and townspeople admired him. In New Orleans he asked his chauffeur to stop the car so he could hear the jazz throbbing out of the bistros. In Austin, Tex. even his musicians got a surprise. Their usually dapper maestro, for the first time within memory, rehearsed them in shirtsleeves...
...resent your slur on the shipbuilders of New England: the presidential yacht Williamsburg "rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor . . ." [TIME, March...
...this straight, Mr. Editor-there is no "built-in crankiness" in the Williamsburg. She was designed by three of the best shipbuilders this country ever produced: John Burkhardt and James Hunter of the Bethlehem Ship Building Co., and William S. Newell of the Bath Iron Works [he built her]. She came out as the Aras and [her original owner, Hugh Chisholm] took her around the world...
...Lose Weight. Later that day the skies cleared and the Williamsburg's round-bottomed hull slid smoothly through level seas. When the yacht docked at Key West on the fifth day, the President announced that he had lost four pounds, but hardily insisted that it had been a pleasant voyage...