Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands in the loam outside the entry and since, as a matter of plain truth, you spent the entire summer rowing stroke for the Buffalo Yacht Club eight, your story will be unhesitatingly accepted. The assembled company will blush for shame for having so heartlessly tantalized you. If some of them happen to owe you money, so much the better...
From Hearst Columnist Elsa Maxwell, the rich man's Boswell, came breathless reports of voyagers at sea in international society. Cruising aboard a rented yacht for a month's relaxation were U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Winthrop Aldrich ("a nice man in spite of being ambassador") and his wife Harriet. They were among the 60-odd who joined Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis for a drink on his yacht, "a small ocean liner ... a swimming pool that turns into playing fountains and then-into a dance floor...
...about $1 for every $5 paid in payrolls) for such fringe benefits as pensions, paid vacations and welfare funds. But the real frosting on the cake is a vast assortment of "extras," and ranging all the way from equipment for lunch-hour ball games to employee country clubs and yacht clubs with company-owned fleets of yachts...
...planning a field house for winter sports. International Business Machines Corp. has three country clubs for its workers, charges membership fees of $1 a year for employees, $1 for wives (or husbands), and 25-50? for each child. Detroit Edison Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California provide yacht clubs. The employee-run Convair Recreation Association owns a 125-acre ranch and a rodeo arena. At least five Atlanta firms have built private parks for their employees at nearby Allatoona Lake...
...days when Long Island was a sort of multimillionaire's yacht moored to Manhattan, the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) had her eye on a scion (William Holden). But all she ever got in return was the dust of his foreign-made car as he roared off to live another scene from The Great Gatsby. Resigned to a life in the servants' quarters, she went sadly off to cooking school in Paris...