Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over to the Government. General MacArthur's command used it all during the Pacific campaign...
...make up the Crimson team are competitively chosen from the membership of the Harvard Yacht Club. From the 45 men who annually spend fall and spring practising in the MIT dingies and the winter hearing speakers and seeing yachting movies, a "managerial board" picks the Crimson yachting team...
Putnam, who holds down the jobs of Yacht Club commodore, sailing team captain, and Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association president, has sailed boats of almost every description. But his forte is small-boat sailing, and Putnam is co-defending champion of the Boston Dinghy...
Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
Last weekend, however, Harvard was back in its accustomed runner-up spot as Putnam and Scullay skippered the Crimson into second place behind the Elis in the Ivy Championships at Brown's Edgewood Yacht Club...