Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farewell. Next night, the Queen left, bound for Tobruk and a long-delayed reunion with her children, who had come by the new royal yacht Britannia to meet her. In Uganda, Sir Andrew Cohen breathed easier...
Williams and Reporter Don Petit, 32, who had already made a reputation in Florida exposing bookmaking and police graft (TIME, June 13, 1949), then discovered that District General Manager Bateman, whose salary was $550 a month, was building an $85,000 house for himself, complete with a private yacht basin. They also charged that he had become one of the biggest real-estate operators in the Keys by buying land that was later improved with public funds...
...varsity sailing team and Navy are co-favorites in the weekend's Owen Trophy competition, to be held at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Providence. Brown is the host and defending champion in the 12-team meet...
...Margaret, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 5, and Princess Anne, 3, rode to Portsmouth from London on an electric train. Confused because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia is due at the Libyan port of Tobruk. There, Prince...
...gave it up at the end of his sophomore year and married Lucie Bedford, daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...