Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was so much hubbub over the Wallace ouster that no one thought much about his possible successor. That could wait. Harry Truman went off to seek weekend sanctuary on the presidential yacht...
...University beatmen, Owen C. Torry '47 and Hilary H. Smart '47, both of Dunster House, captured star championship honors of the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association meet at New Haven, Connecticut, Sunday, ended the races with a nine-point lead over their closest rivals...
...pink sport shirt and shaded by a white pith helmet, he nevertheless found fishing a good way to sit and loaf. Loafing was his chief objective and he got a lot of it done. He kept his weight level by frequent swims off the fantail of his yacht Williamsburg (he uses a side stroke to keep his glasses dry). And he managed to do almost no work. He signed a few documents, put off until this week everything that required anything more than his signature...
...sunned himself on the yacht's fantail, went swimming, loafed, read. One day jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
...sleepy days slipped by the President's tan deepened; he toured the island by automobile, took morning walks past semitropical flowers, spent lazy evenings on the yacht. At week's end he was considering prolonging his visit, returning to Washington by plane at the last possible minute...