Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aimlessly drifting from the home of one royal relative to that of another or sporting with the fast-living "Alfa Romeo set" in Italy. Once, as a lark, he slipped back into republican Greece wearing a thick black beard and posing as a deckhand on a friend's yacht. By the time he married Frederika, at the age of 36 (she was 20), restless, roaming Paul was more than ready to settle down...
...Harvard Yacht Club, led by the skippering of Jim Nathanson, captured both the Danmark and the Oberg Trophies in three days of sailing over the weekend...
...switched from precept to fiat. He gave civil servants three months to master the new script-or find new jobs. He had not been to Istanbul since 1919; now he returned in style and with a purpose. He sailed into the Golden Horn on the Sultan's yacht, triumphantly marched past cheering crowds. He summoned Istanbul's elite to the Sultan's palace to a ball, and stood before them in full evening dress on a raised platform, chalk in hand, before a blackboard. For two hours he explained the new language, then the music blared, everyone...
...Yacht Club in the finals, Gene Walet had scored the most points in a four-series total of 27 races...
...second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie Ill's boat (i.e., protected his edge in points by duplicating Ill's maneuvers, tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race to my dad for his [52nd] birthday present...