Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Posted on his 53rd birthday, that terse notice gave Harold Stirling Vanderbilt what he has been working for all winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last...
...pace ever set in national championship golf. He refused to play on the Ryder Cup team in 1931 because rules forbade him to barnstorm the U. S. independently after the matches. In 1933 he was ineligible because he was a nonresident, employed at the Waterloo Club at Brussels. Last winter when he returned to England to become professional at the Ashridge Club near Berkhamsted, he became eligible for this year's Ryder Cup play...
...flyer. Today Tomlinson holds several world records, has spent more time above 35,000 ft. than any other man, is regarded so highly as a flyer that insurance companies have been known to cut their premiums 50% on a new plane if he is to test-fly it. Last winter Tomlinson made constant trips to the substratosphere in the single-motored Gamma. Devil-may-care as ever, he spurned any such oxygen suit as Wiley Post wore, merely bundled up warmly, stuck an oxygen tube in his mouth. Says he: "I don't know what...
...when T. V. Soong quarreled with Chiang that Dr. Kung should succeed to his job. Regarded then as second-rate compared to brilliant "T. V.", Dr. Kung has since done a whacking good job, currently sits high at China's council tables. When Chiang was kidnapped last winter, Dr. Kung became acting President, ran the country through that highly explosive situation with a minimum of trouble. Then he bustled off to Europe as China's delegate to the Coronation of George...
...Humorous, levelheaded, liberal, in 20 years he has used his talent for public pleading only once, but then effectively, when he swayed U. S. bankers into a truce with the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Persistently modest about his second profession, he remarked on his retirement last winter: "There are four or five men in there who are better bankers than...