Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Kissam Vanderbilt gave his $3,000,000 yacht, the Alva (named for his mother), to the U.S. Navy. Alva has a ventilating system that changes the air every four minutes...
...Shah last month "for reasons of health," was deposited by the British on the tiny island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean "owing to the war situation." ∙∙ Henry Ford, who sent an ineffectual "peace ship" abroad last war, became the tenth citizen to sell or lease a yacht to the Navy for $1. (Two others: Vincent Astor, Major Edward Bowes.) ∙∙ Captain Lord Louis Mountbatfen (in command of the aircraft carrier Illustrious at Norfolk Navy Yard) declared in Washington that he had become a straphanger because cabs were beyond his means. ∙∙Debating food rations...
This Saturday a Harvard Yacht Club crew will journey down Providence way in at attempt to repeat its last year clean-up of Brown's annual Fall Invitation Intercollegiate Dinghy Regatta. In the 1940 Regatta the Crimson crew beat out the second place Princetonians by a five-point margin. Other participants this year will be Dartmouth, M. I. T., Brown, Princeton, Williams, and Yale...
Sailing in strange boats in the Basin on Sunday, the frostbitten squad of the Harvard Yacht Club finished last, behind Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Brown, in a series of seven races, amassing a total of 101 points to 150 1/2 for Dartmouth...
Gimbels sells art objects like hotcakes. With the Hearst collection already half disposed of, it knocked down and dispersed the collection of the late Clarence Mackay and the fittings of J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair. Last month when Gimbels announced a sale of 500 original Turners from the collection of the late John E. Anderson (priced from $11.75 up), buyers from all over the U.S. joined a public stampede. In two days the 500 Turners had been sold...