Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport villa. Two chauffeurs are kept busy with four cars, one of them a handsome Isotta Fraschini. Last spring at the Pusey & Jones shipyards in Wilmington, Mrs. Mills christened her husband's new 160-ft. yacht Avalon...
Aboard the yacht Waterhoen a two-hour get-together was staged between able Queen Elisabeth and some of the Flemish writers, publicists, poets, playwrights and professors who had been agitating for a Change. To.all appearances the Flemish beer-party had a most happy effect?in Flanders. That a skulking French-blooded reporter was there with his snoopy concealed camera was, for the whole Belgian Royal Family, indeed for Belgium itself, a minor tragedy...
John Pierpont Morgan declined to accept the presidency of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an office long held by his father. Reason: "Pressure of business." Same day he announced he will leave soon in his yacht Corsair for a few weeks in "Wall Hall," his 16,000-acre estate at Alderham, Herts...
Nonetheless, since a big fight is always a social event of sorts, trains, planes, and autos were crowded going into Cleveland last week. A yacht brought Wisconsin's dapper young Senator La Follette; a plane brought Edsel Ford; trains brought Chicago's Mayor Cermak, onetime Heavyweight Champions James J.Corbett (1892-97), James J. Jeffries (1899-1905), James Joseph Tunney (1926-28). Bobby Jones, who had been at Toledo to watch the Open golf championship (see p. 24), came over for the weekend. But trains and autos failed to bring the expected big crowds of noncelebrities...
...Bones, won the Winthrop Prize for his scholarly acquaintance with Greek and Latin poetry (TIME, June 8). A poet of some campus repute, he has published verses in the Yale Helicon, undergraduate monthly. After the wedding bride & groom went boating on Long Island Sound on Father Green's yacht...