Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Edinburgh. Last week a London newspaper reported what palace officials had known for six months -that Mike and his wife were separating. Gossipists were prompt to link Parker's name (without foundation) to that of another woman, and the news was duly radioed to the royal yacht Britannia, on which both the Duke and Parker were approaching Gibraltar at the end of a four-month, globe-girdling tour of the Commonwealth. Soon afterward the palace announced that Parker had left his job, and the two old buddies said an unsmiling goodbye at Gibraltar...
...interested in his views on why it is good to have money, in the family album snapshots of his children and his recollections of the great. At one point Lambert tells the Einstein anecdote in which the Father of Relativity, asked by Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt if he likes yacht-racing, replies: "No, Mr. Vanderbilt, I am not interested in anything like that; it is so obvious that one of them must win." That was never obvious to the Father of Halitosis, who knows that to win takes skill (in sailing) and advertising (in business). In fact, Lambert's chief...
...says, "I couldn't sit back and cut coupons. I like a man's world." She also finds time to care for three adopted Norwegian children, try new recipes (out of 50 cookbooks), follow the fortunes of a stable of racing thoroughbreds, sail a 12-meter racing yacht, oversee a score of philanthropies (brain tumor, cerebral palsy, other medical research). Since women control an increasing amount of the nation's wealth, says Mrs. Bay, she feels that they ought to take a greater part in the financial world. Says she: "Times have really changed on Wall Street...
Career: At 30, became assistant private secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. First foreign assignment: Peking. While chargé d'affaires in Athens in 1941, he escaped the Nazis by sailing for Crete on a yacht, was rescued when the yacht was sunk by German planes. During assignment to Allied North African Headquarters, he worked with many Americans now in key spots in Washington, including Dwight Eisenhower. Later he became British head of the Anglo-American political section of Allied Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain...
...fighters and mail planes, quit the Boeing Airplane Co. in 1934, returned as an unofficial adviser during World War II, when the firm built the legendary Flying Fortresses (B-178) and Superforts (B-293), later saw Boeing develop the B-52 jet bomber; of a heart attack aboard his yacht; in Puget Sound...