Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Way. In getting to the year's top racing, held in Long Island Sound's crisp September breezes off the Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club, young Gene and seven other helmsmen had proved themselves the best sailors in the land. Earlier last month, in the eight racing regions of the U.S. and Canada, some 1,600 yachtsmen from 599 clubs had beat and run their boats through the sectional eliminations. To fly the colors of the Southern...
...Alemán regime, the government's gay caballeros seemed to abandon all restraint. The smiling President, who loved the companionship of happy people and prided himself on his conviviality, went from one party to another. Sometimes the cronies would repair to an Acapulco yacht or to one of the ranches, and certain members of the inner circle would invite a planeload of high-spirited girls to join the party. At one time or another, the name of almost every well-known Mexican movie actress was whispered as a presidential party guest. When the blowouts were staged...
Actor Sir Laurence Olivier and his Actress-Wife Vivien Leigh, after cruising the Mediterranean with Cinemagnate Sir Alexander Korda on his 150-ton yacht Elsewhere, were back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
...Long Island Sound, the Riverside (Conn.) Yacht Club's four-girl crew, skippered by Judy Webb, made the most of light breezes to take three out of six races in 210-Class sailboats. With a final point standing of 31¾ to the runnerup Lake Geneva (Wis.) Yacht Club's 25¼, Riverside won its second National Women's Sailing championship...
Gentle summer breezes played along the shoreline of Green Lake, Wis., across the rolling carpet of the 18-hole golf course, the tennis courts, the spacious yacht basin. But not the click of a driver was heard, or a splash from the water. Sitting on folding chairs under the oak trees were 800-odd men, women and children celebrating with hymns, prayers and well-chosen words the tenth anniversary of a summer gathering place for American (Northern) Baptists...