Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budding ability got him a job on the Shipping Control Committee, along with Brother Frederick. From there the Brothers Gibbs launched out into the field of ship designing, finally set up an office on lower Broadway. Some years later they formed a partnership with Daniel Hargate Cox, well-known yacht designer. Mr. Cox lent luster then. Now 70-year-old Mr. Cox's forte is no longer the firm's mainstay. He is now busy with Navy maintenance work. Business head of the firm is still Frederick...
...cold blooded social and financial ambitions in miniature ("I spent half an hour being nice to that Corrigan . . . I thought he was Pictures, and all the time he was just Little Theater"). Each would, if she could, ride "the world's debacle as if it was her own yacht," while saving the tears "for Finland and the photographers." They quickly gang up on their erstwhile idol, Amanda, when her infidelity brings her husband's powerful publishing machine into action against...
Harold S. Vanderbilt turned over to Navy Relief $300,000 paid him by the U.S. for his 117-foot yacht Vagrant, now serving in the Navy...
Competitions for various annual trophies are run by the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association, of which the Harvard group was one of the five original members. Around the end of June comes the MacMillan Cup Race, the most important in college yachting. The Danmark trophy, recently won by the Harvard yachtsmen, is one of the big summer events...
Commodore of the Yacht Club is David C. Noyes '44, of 59 Plympton Street. The other officers are Lyman G. Bullard '44, of Eliot House, Secretary-Treasurer, and John C. Burton '44, of Winthrop House, Vice-Commodore. Though 25 years old, the Club had been inactive until about five years...