Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yacht Club is not very big as yacht clubs go, but its racing team, with a membership of 40, is one of the biggest in the country. Because it has a strictly limited time for sailing each week and because it must use borrowed boats, the Yacht club is the racing team...
...whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought a $150,000 yacht, used it as an office...
Married. Richard Applegate, 40, NBC correspondent captured in 1953 by the Chinese Communists while cruising on a small yacht west of Hong Kong, and released last fall after 18 months' imprisonment; and Barbara Barrows Hoerter, 38, Applegate's lecture manager; both for the second time; in Chicago. Serving as best man was I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, who was captured with Applegate and released by the Chinese at the same time...
...Telegraph wire services. They act as little more than messengers, daily picking up carefully prepared handouts from the Queen's press secretary, Commander Richard Colville. A Scot whose titled family has long served in the royal household, Colville joined the Royal Navy in 1925, served on the royal yacht, was tapped by King George VI in 1947 to be press secretary, asked by Queen Elizabeth II to stay on as court spokesman. Dutifully, the London Times and the Daily Telegraph print his handouts under the royal coat of arms and the heading, "Court Circular...
Another man might have kept his shame to himself. Not Gaston. He not only told his wife and family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace...