Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey-born son of a Manhattan newspaperman who died when Hayden was nine, he went to school in Maine, then went to sea. In a Boston fisherman he spent two years on the Grand Banks. For a few months he took fishing parties out of Gloucester on his own yacht, Vagrant, got his master's papers while he was working as a fireman aboard the steamship Florida between Miami and Havana...
...rain had become a downpour. The Presidential yacht Potomac was tied up at the Severn Basin; while midshipmen and officers snapped to attention, the Executive flag broke out from the foremast, the President was piped over the side. On the King George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George...
DEATH AT THE HELM- John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). A yacht piles up on shore with a man and woman freshly dead of poison in the cockpit: she, the wife of a frozen-faced K.C.; he the son of a Purity Society officer. Inspector Jimmy Waghorn figures it all wrong until Dr. Priestley finally appears...
...poked about the Caribbean for two months with a crew of 46 U. S. youngsters, to teach them "a love of the sea." By 1937 he was back in his World War I hunting grounds on a two-year round-the-world junket. With his sailing yacht Seeteufel he slipped through Australian waters, taking soundings, making a picture record of his trip with the help of a Nazi Government photographer. A New Zealander who accompanied him from Auckland to Sydney discovered the Seeteufel buttressed with steel braces, stocked with arms and munitions. By the time war broke out the Count...
...countrymen were just as thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat...