Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long conference with Krug delayed the President's departure aboard the yacht Williamsburg for a weekend visit to the Naval Academy. When he reached Annapolis after an all-night cruise, he looked chipper and relaxed. Next day he made an informal little speech before lunch in Bancroft Hall. There was a subdued laugh from the future admirals when the President said: "The future is in your hands. . . . Those of us now running the Government are coming to the end of their term." Then, as a raw wind swept off the river, Army veteran Harry Truman watched the Navy lose...
...East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...
Amassing 104 points to the Crimson's runner-up total of 91, the M.I.T. boats led in both the 12 and 14 foot dinghy classes, while Owen Torrey, commodore of the Harvard Yacht Club, led the star class craft...
Quick Tricks. V.E., who had made a pile at the age of 28, now set out to lounge as grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties...
...Harry Truman sent word from his yacht that he had picked affable W. (for William) Averell Harriman, his Ambassador to London, the wartime Ambassador to Moscow, as his Secretary of Commerce...