Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there...
Last year the death of his father kicked Son Runciman upstairs into the peerage, curtailed his chances of becoming Prime Minister. Among Lord Runciman's varied interests are teaching Sunday School and yachting-he has sailed over 500.000 miles on salt water, and Sunbeam, one of his yachts, has twice taken him around the world. Last week, while headlines screamed his name in every land. Lord Runciman characteristically went down to yacht for a few days at Cowes, remote even from His Majesty's Government. This week he speeds to Prague to become Mediator...
...submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food...
England's law permits operations only when necessary to save the life of the mother, and yacht-loving Dr. Bourne, who two years ago prepared a weighty report on abortions for the British Medical Association, has long wished to broaden the law so as to allow reputable surgeons to use their own discretion in terminating pregnancies in special cases. A large share of British medical opinion agreed that a test case should be made to bring the law before the courts. Two-and-a-half months ago the perfect test case appeared...
...days last week, Long Island Sound off Larchmont was as crowded as China's famed Han River at Hankow. Instead of jostling sampans, junks and tiny tugs the jostlers were Pirates, Buccaneers, Bulldogs, Snipes. It was the Larchmont Yacht Club's 40th annual Race Week, No. 1 outing for North Atlantic sailors south of Cape...