Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocky northern coast of Corsica sat Playwright Noel Coward, sipping a drink, waiting for his chartered yacht Mairi to pick him up. Two days before a Mediterranean squall had sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what...
Orders from Washington sent 30 Navy and Coast Guard boats and a fleet of private yachts scouring Massachusetts Bay for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Nine hours later Sailor Roosevelt and six companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
Behind that terse statement by the New York Yacht Club's selection committee last week lay 25 summer days of trial races by the three contenders off Newport, R. I. Last fortnight the weakest candidate, Frederick H. Prince's Weeta-moe, was eliminated. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow settled down to the serious work of defeating Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and sailed by that fine old salt, onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...been handicapped by a shift of wind that favored Rainbow. Her managing owner, Chandler Hovey, had just finished saying that he thought her showing amounted to a moral victory when he heard the news that Rainbow had been chosen. Said he: "It seems incredible." Aboard Vanderbilt's yacht Vara his guests did a war dance of delight...
...four clattered over the cobblestones of 14th Street to alight at Hearn's for a camel's hair shawl at $10,000 or laces at $1,000 a yd. For 105 years the store was managed by the Hearn family whose youngest executive, Donald Hearn Cowl, kept a yacht as late as 1931 and raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression, long eclipsed in fashion by younger stores, was turned over to a board of trustees. They were glad of a chance to sell the store lock, stock & barrel to two Jews named...