Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while the island was in high excitement over President Roosevelt's visit, the little yachts began to appear off Oahu's Diamond Head. None of them approached the record for the 2,200-mi. crossing: 11 days, 14 hr.. by Manner in 1923. First across the line was Vileehi, in 13 days, 3 hr. She was followed by Manuiwa, Burrapeg, Fandango, Monsoon, Altair and Dolphin. After four days, when the handicaps of all other possible winners had expired, officials of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club announced the winner: Harold Dillingham's Manuiwa. William Candy...
...Kentucky Derby with a filly (Regret, 1915), were valued at nearly a million dollars. Among real estate and personal property worth over $6,000,000 were his 634-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. ($2,186,000), his private railroad car Wanderer ($25,000), his yacht Whileaway ($62,500), Van Dyck's Portrait of Sir William Villiers ($60,000), Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of A Lady ($18,000), two pink Oriental shirt studs...
English Comedienne Gertrude Lawrence swung a bottle of champagne against her new 30-ft. yacht, gift of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The bottle bounced back. Harder she swung and still harder, but without results. While spectators tittered, she picked up a hatchet and smashed the bottle. Then, out of breath, she christened the boat Grateful, took Donor Fairbanks and friends on a week-end cruise out of Southampton...
...remotely derived from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, concerns a spitfire heiress (Ann Sothern) and a hardboiled newshawk (Robert Armstrong). When the reporter slaps her face, she disguises herself by dyeing her hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...
Rudolph J. Schaefer is president of F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. A rear-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club, he named his 56-footer after his two daughters, Edmee and Lucy. Skipper Alger, a Detroit socialite, is the grandson namesake of McKinley's Secretary...