Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoy pushing a ping pong ball along the ground with your nose or jumping across the finish line in a paper sack." If she is so inclined, this event is just for her since "you have the fun, and the upperclassmen cheer you on." Another "AA" surprise is the Yacht Club, which urges the seagoing tykes to "throw up your masts and join...
...Having won almost enough points for the title, Mrs. Robert E. Pegel's Chicago Yacht Club crew sailed the final five-mile course on Galveston Bay in conservative style, settled for third place, a total of 54⅛ points and the North American women's sailing championship...
...gathered another apprehensive group, including those Arabs who have freely proclaimed their association with the West. King Hussein of Jordan flew in for what was billed as a ''holiday'' in Istanbul; his Hashemite cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, was already in Turkey on his royal yacht, and taking water-skiing lessons. Both cousins broke off their holidays for consultations with Premier Adnan Menderes...
...yacht and country clubs and the looming shingled mansions by the sea, eastern high society dances the summer nights away to the honey-tongued music of a few favored bands. The men on the bandstands at Newport, Southampton and Bar Harbor are the.same ones who whip out the frothy fox trots at the coming-out balls in the fall, at the canopied weddings in June; two generations of debutantes have been presented, courted and married under the batons of such bandleaders as Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman. Perhaps the busiest of the musical blue bloods is a springy, raw-nerved...
...every staffer to hop on the story as if the next body might be his own. When Richardson himself scored the biggest local beat of the decade-a 32-column exclusive on the prison love notes exchanged by Beulah Overell and her boy friend while awaiting trial for the yacht murder of her parents in 1947-he bragged that the $1 Examiner was selling on the streets of Los Angeles for $1 a copy...