Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yacht for Sale. The famed 1,969-ton luxury yacht Nourmahal-built at Germany's Krupp yards for Vincent Astor, turned over to the Coast Guard in 1941 for submarine patrol service-was up for sale to the highest bidder...
...still "a patsy for a handsome guy." She fell in & out of love as wildly and thoughtlessly as a high-school girl. In 1940, she had married a young yacht broker named Willis Hunt Jr., left him in two months complaining that he was "sarcastic." Two years later, in war-darkened London, she fell ecstatically in love with a young American aviator, Captain Thomas Wallace. They were married in a church-"with a veil and all"-after which she hurried off to Africa. When she saw him in New York the following summer, she found that she hardly knew...
Died. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 42, Standard Oil heir, prewar tabloid character; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. A popular target for assault & battery suits (by his yacht engineer and his secretary), twice-married Rogers enjoyed his greatest notoriety when Musicomedy Actress Evelyn Hoey committed suicide at his Pennsylvania farmhouse...
...that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
...hundreds of man-hours on the river, stacks of boofstcak and other equally delectable viands, long sessions among the brains of the squad--the Messrs. Bolles, Love, Haines--and a good deal of sleep, eating, and varied recreation for the oarsmen. Managers get their fun from personally welcoming every yacht that arrives on the river to celebrate the regatta...