Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blum works in the Manhattan Department of Plant & Structures. His friend Abraham Rosenberg works for Manhattan Terazzo Brass Co. They go sailing at the Bronxonia Yacht Club, at Throg's Neck, N. Y. Last winter Nat Blum and Abraham Rosenberg wondered why they should not borrow their friend David Rosenstein's 49-foot ketch, the Curlew, and enter the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton. Cruising Club officials, examining the. boats for seaworthiness, paid special attention to the Curlew but finally decided...
...Baron left for Honolulu to take his normal vacation cruise on his yacht in the South Seas...
...Gale's Class-A sloop, Malabar X: the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing...
...Admiral Harry Gabriel Hamlet. He is 58, the big-boned, white-haired son of a New England revenue cutter captain. One of his first jobs with the Coast Guard was on the famed cutter Bear, rescuing distressed whaling ships in the Arctic. In the War he commanded the converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard...
...Army. Parts which the Mexican Army does not want the men grind into fine powder, sell to the Chinese for an aphrodisiac. A wealthy old man has a cabin on the island, in the hills where the goats are thickest. He gets his aphrodisiac by sniffs-each year his yacht leaves him there, takes him away refreshed...