Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basketball tournaments, Boy Scout awards, Children's Day, Christmas carol singing, folk-dance festival, golf tournament, handball tournament, high-school concert, horseshoe-pitching contest, junior archery meet, junior Olympics, learn-to-swim program, Little Fellas' baseball, marbles meet, Mayor's track meet, model-flying fair, model-yacht regatta, school science show, swim tournament, tennis tournament, winter carnival, youth festival, youth forum. Presumably, all these activities help sell papers...
...Fullerton, Calif., Car Salesman Robert W. Huff, 30, charged with bilking seven Baptist churches of some $93,000 worth of building bonds, explained that he had to finance his trips to Las Vegas dice tables in order to win money to keep up payments on his new Cadillac, yacht, house trailer and jeep, told police he got the "gambling fever" after "I started pitching quarters...
AMONG his other claims to fame, Greek Shipping King Stavros Spyros Niarchos has an art collection worth millions scattered in half a dozen residences in the U.S. and abroad, ashore and afloat. To photograph the favorite paintings that Niarchos keeps aboard his palatial yacht Creole, TIME sent London-based Photographer Larry Burrows flying down to ViHefranche on the French Riviera. Burrows soon ran into trouble: customs red tape ruled out taking the art works ashore; vibration from the yacht's big generators (which Burrows checked by placing a Vichy bottle on deck, watching it quiver) made picture-taking aboard...
...residences round the world to furnish, Niarchos has no shortage of wall space. El Greco's Pietà is too big (47¼-in. by 57 in.) to follow him around the world, remains in a room specially decorated for it in Manhattan. His favorite repository is the yacht Creole, which for nearly six months of the year is the Niarchos' home afloat. In the below-decks salon he hangs some of his best, has a special place of honor where he rotates his favorite of the moment-currently Gauguin's Horsemen on the Beach...
This has provoked angry predictions from London art experts that his masterpieces are in danger from the salt air. Niarchos brushes off this complaint: "On my yacht, sea air and water never reach the paintings. The rooms are air-conditioned, with temperature and humidity controls. Filters control the inflow of air, which is always pure, and smoke from cigarettes is immediately expelled by adequate installations...