Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greasily dismembered his Franklin automobile. During the War his mechanical bent led him to ships, and he rose from U. S. ensign to lieutenant, served in foreign waters. Nor did his interest in ships decay with peace. Last year there was delivered to him the Nourmahal, biggest oil-burning yacht in the world. Since its owner is Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the Nourmahal is the Club flagship. Indeed the Astor interest in the sea is so great as to be almost exclusive of all else. Last week, going from pleasure to business, Commodore Astor acquired an important...
Born. To the Count & Countess Folke Bernadotte of Sweden (she is daughter of Hiram Edward Manville, U. S. asbestos man); a son; at Stockholm. Name: Gustav Edward, for his royal granduncle. Two months ago the U. S. grandparents sailed to Europe in their yacht Hi-Esman, to be present at the event (TIME...
William Bateman Leeds Jr., sportsman, gave his yacht Sinco (onetime boat of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair) to dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York City for official use, probably for the harbor reception of visiting notables...
...judge, grim-lipped Sir Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...
Another time, Baron Henri de Rothschild asked her to a party on his yacht, along with Prince and Princess Olaf of Norway, and she gave a command performance for Viscount Lascelles. In the U. S. she has been practicing a new whirl the Alex Paulsen-which is a turn and a half in the air, the skater landing on one skate going backward. She skates a little every and between times dances, dines, goes the theatre...