Word: yachted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outstanding flotilla is the one organized by Kenneth S. Magoon, ex-commodore of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, now a TR lieutenant (j.g.). Lieut. Magoon's flotilla has grown from 100 to 600 volunteers. Most of Magoon's flotilla patrol the Massachusetts beaches, stepping thoughtfully around lovers, eyes beamed seaward for flares, boats in distress, enemy submarines. Chunky, energetic Lieut. Magoon resents the intrusion of his State St. importing business on the long hours he devotes...
...Douglas . . . explains, "We're just a bunch of middle-aged fellows getting too lazy to handle a schooner." But schooner men take one look at Endymion's circus-tent mainsail and incredible mast and feel faintly ill. . . . Anyone who has seen the Douglas yacht charging home from Catalina of a Sunday afternoon, romping past other craft, both sail and power, knows that her owner sails her like a man possessed...
...Harvard, Lucius chartered a plane from which he attempted to festoon the late J. P. Morgan's yacht, Corsair, with toilet paper, initiated a poll to decide whether Harvard should trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield (the motion was lost, 1,234-to-1,227), borrowed and surreptitiously published manuscript poems by Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Harvard and joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune...
Died. Colonel Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 54, until last August General Douglas MacArthur's Executive Intelligence Officer, peacetime yacht-skippering investment banker; three months after a breakdown induced by heavy South Pacific staff work; in Cove Neck, N.Y. Princeton '11, Harvard Law School '14, he won the D.S.C. as a World War I captain (later he was a major) of the 165th Infantry...
...recent election held in the Hasty Pudding Club, George O'Day '45, Commodore of the Crimson dinghy racing team which placed third in a regatta attended by eight colleges last Sunday, was named president of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association...