Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...hundred miles off the New England coast a dozen passengers on the Black Diamond freighter Black Gull last week gathered at the rail to examine a speck on the horizon. On closer inspection, the speck turned out to be a boat, the size of those usually seen moored at yacht-club landings. To suggestions that he take the tiny craft in tow, rescue her crew, the Black Gull's captain, Leonard Frisco, explained why this was inadvisable. No derelict, the boat was the German yawl Stoertebeker. With five other minuscule vessels, which left Newport a fortnight before...
Died. Willard Van Brunt, 88, philanthropist, retired manufacturer of Horicon, Wis.; after falling and breaking his hip on his yacht last fortnight; in Los Angeles. Last month to 95 of his old employes he distributed $205,000 in U. S. baby bonds (TIME...
...hustled him off to the Barnstable town lockup. There Oldster Rand was charged with dodging Massachusetts income taxes of $35,000 in 1928-29-30. Reason for the sudden arrest, it turned out, was that the tax-collectors feared Mr. Rand might make a getaway on his son's yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail. Arraigned next morning, he protested that up to 1932 he paid his taxes in New York. Furthermore, he could pay no Massachusetts taxes even if he owed them. Since 1925, when he merged Rand Co. with his son's rival firm...
...York on his yacht Infanta sailed John Barrymore with a 10-year-old brunette "protégée" named Elaine Barrie. Next day a legal advertisement in Los Angeles warned that Actor Barrymore would be responsible for no debts but his own. Day after, Mrs. Dolores Costello Barrymore sued him for divorce, charging cruelty and habitual drunkenness...