Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King's Fishing. One May afternoon in 1946 Victor Emmanuel, wearing white gloves, went fishing for sgómbro, a kind of mackerel, in the bay of Naples. For hours he sat erect on a camp chair, his short, spindly legs clear of the royal yacht's deck. Only one sgómbro bit. The political fishing was just as bad. The king's few remaining friends told him that the Italian people would vote against the monarchy...
Died. Edward Carrington Heard, 68, Britain's No. 1 professional yachtsman; in Tollesbury, England. Heard was the last professional to skipper a British yacht in the America's Cup races (Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger Shamrock V in 1930), failed to win the cup for England-as his countrymen have tried and failed to do ever since...
Entering contestants in both A and B divisions, the Harvard Yacht Club sailing team will race down the Potomac River at Washington D. C., in the first winter Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association dinghy regatta to be held at the nation's capital tomorrow and Sunday...
...first winter activity since before the war, the Yacht Club will show Techman Jack Wood's dinghy racing movies in the Lowell House Junior Common Room at 7:30 o'clock this evening...
Noted for his work with the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association, Wood has been in charge of the M.I.T. dinghy fleet since its inception...