Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Boyce Thompson, copper millionaire and flora expert, was goodhumoredly sunning himself last week aboard his yacht off Miami. Less active than he used to be, he was pleased to learn that the balmy weather around Yonkers, N. Y., was enabling Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research to start spending $3,000,000 which Col. Thompson gave him last year for a 400-acre arboretum adjoining the institute...
Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine), who owns estates at Princeton, N. J., and Millwood, Va., bought "Carter's Creek," an ancestral seat, at Tidewater, Va. His yacht Atlantic was piloted across the ocean in 1928 in the King of Spain Cup Race by Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...Coconut Grove, near Miami, its home anchorage, lay with sails furled, the 29-foot sloop of Author Kirk Munroe, of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, on a quiet Florida night last week. Then furtively came a thief to up anchor and sail away ghostlike to the south. In hot pursuit the next morning went Author Munroe, borne on the wings of a seaplane. Munroe's pilot dropped alongside of the sloop and the pursuer leapt aboard. At the point of a gun he forced the thief to come about, then he bound him and put out for the Coconut...
Finally Mysterious Macdonald chartered a special car, took several cardinals with him to Naples, made them at home on board the British yacht Ianara which he had chartered, and concluded the celebration of his Marquisate with a cruise along the Italian and French Rivieras, returning to Italy to sail on the Vulcania with Cardinal Hayes...
Agents for Edsel Bryant Ford offered for sale his new, unused yacht Sialia, wrecked two months ago off Buzzards...