Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Manner. He lived magnificently. When Widower Williams married twice-divorced Mona Bush, a handsome Kentucky belle 24 years his junior, their honeymoon was spent on Williams' Warrior, then the world's largest yacht. He bought villas at Capri, Palm Beach, Long Island, Judge Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion and a Paris town house. Perennially, couturiers hailed Mona Williams as the best-dressed woman in the world...
...already pinched readymade luxury boats. Some big boatmakers, e.g., Matthews Co., have switched over to defense contracts almost entirely, and were not represented at the show. Richardson Boat Co. has sold all of its 1952 stock of 29-ft. and 33-ft. models and can make no more. Owens Yacht Co. Inc. has so much Government work that it now builds only one 30-ft. express cruiser...
Prices on many types of boat have inched up in the last year, and more increases are in store. Both Chris-Craft and Wheeler Yacht Co. announced a hike, and other companies are due to follow. But there still seem to be enough well-heeled customers to buy even the most luxurious yachts. Chris-Craft-to "meet demand" -puts out a 62-ft. yacht. Price...
...sturdy as before: more & more he relied on Eden to catch what Churchill's ears missed and to recall details that his mind forgot. On Churchill's first night in the capital, he sat down for a private, personal, after-dinner talk with Truman on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. Fifteen minutes later Truman sent for Acheson, and Churchill for Eden...
...Belloc with whom posterity will reckon does not belong to this era at all. He belongs to those Edwardian days when the wiseacres said of him-as they said of Churchill-that his very brilliance would be his undoing. For Belloc could write like an angel, sail a yacht like an old salt, take to the hustings like a born politician (he was a-Liberal M.P. for South Salford from 1906 to 1910). He turned out books at the rate of two or three a year-poems, novels, histories and essays of such diversity that, as early...