Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Miami last week swooped the yacht Southern Cross, carrying the world's best-known divorcee to the dentist. It was the first time the Duchess (nee Bessie Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore) had been in her native U. S. since 1933. A lot of things had happened in that time, including her marriage to a third husband, who turned out to be the ex-King of England...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...
...dead were Eve and Delton Conly. The still-living woman was Fern Thompson. The Wing On's fragmentary log told the rest. After noting that the yacht had run into a "cyclone," the entry dated Nov. 7 read: "Discovered Chet had died. What next? Help us, oh God!" On Nov. 8: "Buried Chester Thompson, 21, at 8:10 a.m.; died starvation ... he was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had." The last entry, on Nov. 12, was merely: "D. A. Conly, master, yacht Wing...
...call-money market he took a short position. While older & wiser traders were wiped out, Jesse Livermore picked up a cool million or so and a reputation beyond price. Thirty years old, he was again dubbed the Boy Plunger-this time by Wall Street. He bought a steam yacht and sailed for Boston, where he spent $200,000 trying to save a brother-in-law from the chair for killing his wife...
...offices at No. 730 Fifth Ave., Manhattan and of which Harold Stirling Vanderbilt is national honorary chairman. Mr. Vanderbilt, no Greek, is in there for humanitarian reasons but he and Mr. Helis, the Greek boy who made good, have something in common: Mr. Helis has a 107-ft. yacht, the William Helis II, and Mr. Vanderbilt is the U. S.'s most famed yachtsman...