Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaders of the varsity squad, which last weekend won the Boston Area championship over M.I.T. and four other colleges, are Yacht Club Commodores Fred Hoppin, Tim Brown, and Jim Nathanson...
Toothpicks & Jalopies. Samuel Powers Sears, 58 (remote kin of "Bobo" Paul Sears Rockefeller), comes from a Cape Cod seafaring family whose heritage he upholds as commodore of the Dennis (Mass.) Yacht Club. At Harvard ('17), Sam turned his musical talent into Hasty Pudding shows-tunes by Sears, words by Robert Sherwood. The pair worked in a musty office, where young Sherwood hung his portrait among those of the great poets, while Sam's was flanked by pictures of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Sam can still pound out lively barroom piano music, but with maturity, he has acquired...
Died. Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 90, retired Manhattan surgeon, who performed more than 20,000 operations, including chest surgery on Tenor Enrico Caruso, a secret operation (to avoid public panic during the great 1893 free-silver debate) on President Grover Cleveland for cancer of the jawbone aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan...
...College Yacht Club will open its season this weekend when it competes against seven other teams in the McMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis...
...Sunset Island No. I in Miami's yacht-clogged Biscayne Bay, Marianne Reynolds, who got $2,000,000 and a divorce in 1952 from Tobacco Heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr., sang a $35,000 swan song. Soon off to luxuriate in California, Marianne said farewell to Florida in the style to which Reynolds had accustomed her. Under the bleak gaze of ten gate-guarding cops, 160 servants, two firemen and some 15 dinner-jacketed plainclothesmen who mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne...