Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope of producing tropical species...
Customs officers at Chicago found liquor worth $2,500 aboard Kenkora II, black-hulled yacht owned by jolly Kenneth G. Smith, president of Pepsodent Co.. when it returned from a cruise in Canadian waters. Said Mr. Smith: "It was for medicinal purposes. . . . I didn't know, however, there was so much medicine aboard...
...passerby on the Boston Yacht Club pier at Marblehead, Mass, saw a man hanging head-down from the deck of a moored sailboat, his head & shoulders under water, his feet tangled in rigging, his body wedged between boat and pier. At a hospital, where he was given a fighting chance to live, the man was discovered to be Charles Brandon Booth. 40, a regional director of the Big Brother & Big Sister Federation, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America...
...Marble House," famed old Newport mansion of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, was bought by Frederick Henry-Prince, Boston banker, railroad tycoon, sportsman, owner of the racing yacht Weetamoe. "Marble House" was built in 1892, at a reputed cost of $8,000,000, as a birthday gift to Mrs. Belmont by her husband, the late William Kissam Vanderbilt, three years before she divorced him. It has been boarded up since...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup contender Weetamoe, sailed by Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt: the King's Cup. at Newport, closing race of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; against Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, the only other big racing sloop in commission this year...