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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...
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...
...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
...immediate goal of the Plymouth citizens is to have a scale model of the first settlement ready for exhibition by May 30. The finished reproduction will be on the line of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia...