Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Captain Robert Lawrence Berry, retired, 52, naval aide and personal friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, onetime (1914-17) commander of the Presidential yacht Mayflower; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn...
George Andrews, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Havana, went fishing with a Captain Leslie Waggett last week and saw something pink fluttering over the water about three miles off the Jaimanitas Yacht Club. It was a light summer dress tied to an oar and the oar was held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started...
...spirit of the office was carnival. "There is no substitute for circulation" and "What we want to arouse is the 'Gee Whiz!' emotion" were the watchwords. Lots to drink (though not for Hearst; he was and is a sipper of fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first...
...lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering at his poor old dipsomaniac landlady until she falls over in a giggling swoon...
...with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and the late Henry Devereaux Whiton financed William Beebe's expeditions to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands-with the result that there is today a Harrison Williams Volcano in the islands. He also bought the Krupp-built Vanados, then largest yacht afloat, with a cruising radius of 12,000 mi., renamed her Warrior and refitted her for his own oceanographic and pleasure purposes. In 1926, having been a widower for eleven years, he suddenly married Mona Bush, beauteous divorced wife of James Irving Bush of Winthrop, Mitchell...