Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as she passed the lastsheltering headland of Chesapeake Bay, the presidential yacht Williamsburg ran into heavy weather. For two days and two nights as she skirted the storm-buffeted Carolina capes, she rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor. The President, who had chosen a sea route to Key West as a gesture of friendliness to the Navy, surrendered to the unfriendliness of the sea and the built-in crankiness of his personal ship; he took to his berth, stopped eating...
...White House party also lay abed. It was not until the morning of the third day that angular Secretary Charles Ross was able to get up to the bridge and into radio communication with newsmen on an accompanying destroyer. He made his report: the only activity aboard the Williamsburg occurred in a horrible nightmare he had had, in which oranges were rolling back & forth, back & forth on the deck of his cabin. Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan had been the sickest man, but there had been a general loss of faith in the seasickness pills offered by White House Physician...
With the hustle of a heavyweight champion's entourage heading for Pompton Lakes, Harry Truman and his retinue filed aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg this week and glided south down Chesapeake Bay toward Key West, Fla. The destroyer William C. Lawe steamed along nearby, carrying Secret Service men, newsmen and photographers...
...candlelit Governor's Palace at restored Williamsburg, Va., a string ensemble played Mozart, liveried footmen served fruit punch, and 200 visitors swapped the latest ideas about antiques. It was the 19th and final night of the second annual forum on antiques, sponsored by Colonial Williamsburg Inc. and the magazine Antiques. Lock, stock & rocking chair, Antiques' Editor Alice Winchester and most of her staff had traveled to Williamsburg to pick up a few ideas themselves. Last week they were back at work in their modern Manhattan offices, getting ready to tell their readers all about it in a forthcoming...