Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as she passed the lastsheltering headland of Chesapeake Bay, the presidential yacht Williamsburg ran into heavy weather. For two days and two nights as she skirted the storm-buffeted Carolina capes, she rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor. The President, who had chosen a sea route to Key West as a gesture of friendliness to the Navy, surrendered to the unfriendliness of the sea and the built-in crankiness of his personal ship; he took to his berth, stopped eating...
With the hustle of a heavyweight champion's entourage heading for Pompton Lakes, Harry Truman and his retinue filed aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg this week and glided south down Chesapeake Bay toward Key West, Fla. The destroyer William C. Lawe steamed along nearby, carrying Secret Service men, newsmen and photographers...
...Yacht Club gets the jump on the spring sailing season by sponsoring the second Annual New England Frostbite Regatta at Marblehead tomorrow. Competition will be in Hunt-designed 111/2-foot Waterbugs and invitations have been sent to BU, BC, Brown, Dartmouth, M.I.T., Northeastern, Tufts, and Williams...
...Harvard Yacht Club last night announced its new officers for the 1950-1951 season. Elected were Frank P. Scully, Jr. '51, Commodore; Tom J. Carroll '52, Vice Commodore; John B. Gardner '51, Secretary; and Phillip W. Smith '51, Treasurer...
...leading characters are Mr. Goat, a young lecturer who is part of a cultural mission to the country, a symbol of pleasant, irresolute liberalism, and Maria, the Governor's own beautiful, amoral wife, who has fallen in love with Goat. On a yacht off the island, from which the stage can be seen, the Minister for Public Instruction, the Governor's political rival, is also waiting for the play to be over. When Mr. Goat, as Lear, comes on bearing Maria as the dead Cordelia, it is obvious that Maria is indeed dead; the Governor has killed...