Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Nicholas ("Nicky the Greek") Zographos,* 66, famed as the world's greatest professional gambler; of cancer; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jockey-sized Card Ace Zographos, who entertained royalty on his yacht, ran baccarat banks at Cannes in the winter and at Deauville in summer. Win or lose, Zographos played it deadpan. Once, the wife of an automobile tycoon reportedly held his hand while he dropped a small fortune at baccarat. His hand, she remarked, did not tremble. "No," said he, "but I turn somersaults when I go to bed at night...
Dilapidated and wobbly as it is, the grotesque Japanese pagoda is the year-round headquarters for the $85,000-a-year rowing industry. When the crew returns from lumber mills and yacht clubs in September, it removes the 18 long, slim shells from the racks and rows every day until ice forms on the river. Then the Oriental barn becomes home for both boats and crew, like a nineteenth century factory--producing "oarsmen." Machines upstairs fashion rowing muscles as the crew-men pull on bars which resist their efforts like water opposing the motion of an oar. The crew...
...Decided that the presidential yacht Williamsburg was a "needless luxury," ordered the gleaming 244-ft. vessel mothballed during his term in office. ¶ Recommended that the Government's $550 million worth of synthetic rubber plants, created during World War II, be turned over to private industry...
...persecuted. Under these conditions I find it virtually impossible to continue my motion-picture work, and I have therefore given up my residence in the United States." For sale in Hollywood were Chaplin's studio, offered at $900,000, his house at $150,000 and his yacht...
Such productivity brought Bennett fame, fortune (an annual income in later years of as much as $100,000), a yacht, a grand house in Cadogan Square, a wife, a mistress, and the friendship of such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw. During his lifetime, his love of good clothes and good living gave Bennett a reputation as a fop, a popular caricature which the publication of his Journal in 1932-33 did little to change. Biographer Pound now takes a look behind the dandyism, the snobbishness and the preoccupation with money, and finds...