Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SAILOR, TAKE WARNING-Kelley Roos -Dodd, Mead & Co. ($2). The middle-aged yacht enthusiast was stabbed in broad daylight on a knoll overlooking a Central Park lake, in full view of Jeff Troy and his wife, who trail an exceptionally well-concealed killer through exciting, amusing situations. Good detecting, pleasant people and good...
...Once Barrymore's yacht frantically signaled a tanker. Queried the tanker: "Do you need water?" "God, no!" Barrymore signaled back, "we need booze...
...only one year (1918-19). In 1904 he started and refereed the first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard for his master's papers, and could legally have skippered a Queen Mary in any ocean...
...about the improvised bed. The plane's remaining 26 bucket seats were for Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy, for the President's naval and military aides, his physician, a masseur, and his valet, Prettyman. Also taken along were a corps of six Filipino cooks from the Presidential yacht Potomac...
Died. George Arthur ("Pop") Corry, 80, Grand Old Man of U.S. sailing, perpetual commodore of the International Star Yacht Racing Association; in Manhattan. When the Star class of sloops (overall length 22 ft. 8¾ in.; beam 5 ft. 8¼ in.; draft approximately 3 ft. 4 in.) was designed in 1911, high-collared, Long Island Sounder Corry registered his Little Dipper as No.1. He won some 500 trophies, taught hundreds of amateur sailors, in 1939 was chairman of the international Star races at Kiel...