Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle years, Helleu maintained a small yacht, aboard which he used to receive the neurasthenic Marcel Proust, transported at night from Paris to the sea in a favorite taxicab. Helleu is said to have been, in part, the inspiration for the painter Elstir in Proust's great A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Helleu often visited the U.S., saw much of the Francophile architect Whitney Warren. Warren got Helleu to design the starry blue heavens which can still be seen, faded and streaked, on the main ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...
...ships live long enough to experience as many ups & downs as the onetime U.S. Presidential yacht Mayflower...
After 1906 the Mayflower settled down to a quieter routine as Presidential yacht: Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge reviewed the fleet from her decks. Presidents Taft and Wilson entertained bigwigs on board. In 1929 President Hoover decided she was too costly; she was decommissioned and unsuccessfully offered for sale six separate times. In 1931 she caught fire and sank at her berth in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Then the Mayflower was put up for scrap, sold to a Chicago bidder for a dismal $16,105. The Chicago firm resold her to a Wilmington, N. C. company, which in turn resold...
...present Presidential yacht Potomac is a converted Coast Guard cutter of the 165-ft. Icarus type...
...that yacht yet for your Fall vacation. The "PTB's" (Navy abbrevation for Powers That Be) are planning something extra special for the interval between semesters. Just recall that old Navy principle "Learn by Doing" and you get some idea of what may be in store for us "up and coming" disbursing, supply, administrative, management, statistical, procurement, negotiating, inspecting, beer-drinking officers in the "interim." But let's not give up all hope, Maybe we'll all go to Shangri-La to see how the monastery keeps its books, with Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt...