Word: williamsburg
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...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...
...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...
...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...