Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called "Ange-kok," Miracle Worker, by the Eskimos); searched for pirates' gold on a Pacific island; sleuthed for old bones around Lake Superior; flew his own glider; raced his bouncing outboard down the Hudson; mined gold in Mexico. In his spare time, aboard his 185-ft. yacht, Mizpah, he held parties that rattled Chicago tongues...
Even after he married, he found it hard to get his feet on solid ground, insisted on living aboard the Mizpah, where the first of his two children was born. Since the Navy took over the yacht for war purposes, the fabulous Gene McDonald has lived ashore and lumped it, a subdued family man who sticks to a couple of beers, plays with the children while his wife studies Russian and music. His most strenuous recent struggle: a safari last week to Washington to row with the FCC over FM wave lengths...
...yacht Williamsburg three weeks ago, President Truman looked at long strings of figures supplied by Budget Director Harold D. Smith. There in neatly rounded numbers was the billion-dollar mathematics of what it would cost for the U.S. Government to stay in business after having run in the red for 16 years and built up a $275,000,000,000 debt...
...president of the Philippines, Manuel Quezon accepted many evidences of his country's regard. Officials of the Quezon regime gave him a yacht and the use of 100-year-old Malacanan Palace, named new streets and buildings for him as fast as they were constructed. When the Philippines Congress met last autumn, after the liberation of the islands, it voted his widow a pension of 1,000 pesos a month, almost automatically...
...didn't get along: 1) he drank too much; 2) she wanted to live at her place on Fifth Avenue, he at his on Park; 3) she liked twin beds, he a double one big enough to sleep a ball team; 4) he talked about building her a yacht with a glass bathroom, but never did. "I realized," said Actress Swanson, "that...