Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harbor, Me. and Palm Beach, Fla. with a few genteel outposts in New Orleans, the Great Lakes and the West Coast. Those were the days when a wealthy gentleman, admiring J. Pierpont Morgan's 302-ft. Corsair, asked him: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" And old J.P. bluntly told him: "You cannot afford it. Anyone who has to ask how much it costs to run a yacht cannot possibly afford to keep...
...Newport-to-Annapolis ocean race, the 73-ft. yawl Bolero, captained by John Nicholas Brown, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and with famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields serving as first mate, raced and outran a squall, finished her 466-mile run in a near calm to win in an elapsed...
...shows up almost every day at the office, has owned 18 small boats (i.e., less than 41 ft.) in his lifetime, now finds it "more comfortable to let my friends invite me to sail with them" instead of keeping his own boat. Publisher Stone has a simple explanation for Yachting's doubling of its circulation since the war. Says he: "There are more pleasure boats in the water than ever before. Once a yachtsman was a rich man who owned a big yacht with a paid crew. All that is changed now. A yachtsman today is anybody that owns...
Under Editor Critchell Rimington, 46, former vice president of book publisher John Day Co., Yachting staffers in the summer spend almost as much time on boats as they do in the office. The daily Stamford Advocate once ran a picture of a Lightning capsized in Long Island Sound with the crew sitting on the overturned hull. Scoffed the caption at one of the crew: "An assistant editor of Yacht ing magazine covering the championship race." Like other staffers, Managing Editor William H. Taylor, the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his yachting articles in the New York...
...time. Esther has an opportunity to display her aquabatics in an Arkansas swimming hole and in a swimming pool in a French chateau. She also swims the English Channel with the encouragement of a French champagne salesman (Fernando Lamas), who helpfully dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers among the coral with Tom and Jerry, the animated-cartoon...