Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sons, Junius and Henry, their two wives and his two daughters-Mrs. George Nichols and Mrs. Paul G. Pennoyer-all went to Bath, Me., in two private cars which were shunted into the yard of the Bath Iron Works. Letters from people threatening to dynamite the new yacht on the ways made the officials of the Iron Works uncomfortable; they kept the crowd outside the fence. Mrs. Nichols hit the bow of the Corsair IV with a bottle of 1915 champagne donated by the Iron Works. The Corsair IV slid perfectly into the Kennebec River, where it floated nicely...
...with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern racers and were useless for any purpose except racing. The change has come about because Sir Thomas, and the syndicates building U. S. boats to defend the Cup, have agreed that they ought to use only a "sensible type of yacht." The Shamrock V will compete in English regattas in May and will sail across the Atlantic with 20 men aboard, for the Cup races in September. Her skipper will be Ernest Heard, mate on the Shamrock...
...George Whitney. His knowledge of bonds is as thorough and keen as any in the Street. Groton-and-Harvard (1911)-schooled, he goes in for such cultured recreations as breeding Ayrshire cattle and fine hunters at his Somerset County, N. J., farm, although he occasionally foregoes these pleasures for yachting (he is treasurer of the New York Yacht Club). Last January, wearied by Exchange travails, Mr. Whitney left for Miami, achieved temporary newspaper fame when it was learned that he took one Joe Perricone, barber, along. Reason: smart Barber Perricone never tried to sell Mr. Whitney hair tonic...
...Prince Palatine (bought for ?40,000), Sunstar, Humorist. Of Solly's children, Doris eloped with a chauffeur, Stanhope secretly married a U. S. citizen, one Gladys MacFordon. another son died bankrupt at sea. Still unmarried and living with him is 22-year-old daughter Eileen for whom his yacht the Eileen, once the Doris, is named. Solly spends most of his time in England in his London office on Austin Friars. At least once a year, however, he visits Capetown. Huge is his wealth but no man has ever publicly estimated...
...made Greyhound Lines prosper, and as a result now, at the age of 37, is U. S. bus tycoon, President of a corporation with an estimated investment of $16,000,000 and profits (last year), of $1,549,000. He rarely leaves motors and roads to putter on his yacht. But his leisure is increasing: last year he played golf twice, this year has been on the links three times...