Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while away the hours on lonely Cocos, great-great-grandson Ross V has golf links, a fast yacht, a long-range radio transmitter, a tight little cellar of Scotch whisky and a 5,000-volume library (mostly whodunits). But ships call at the Cocos Islands only twice a year; the 19 resident whites are all men, and lonely John kept thinking of an English girl he had met last fall on a trip to England to study colonial administration at Oxford...
Near Bordentown, NJ. the 476-ft. Grille, once proud pleasure yacht of Adolf Hitler, later bought by Textile Millionaire George Arida, went under the torches of a salvage crew, to be cut up and sent to the national defense scrap pile...
...racing sloop L'Apache, a 73-footer, was running in second place in one of the world's longest yacht races-from Los Angeles harbor to Honolulu. At dawn one day last week, L'Apache's boom tackle broke. It had to be repaired under way, with 8-ft. seas running. Precious time was wasting. Crewman Ted Sierks, 40, an ex-Marine and photographer, was braced against the rail, trying to get the fractious boom under control. The rail broke and Sierks slid into...
...clay court tennis title, in an upset over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 6-8, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6; in Chicago. ¶ Victor Seixas, the Spring Lake invitation tennis tournament, over Bill Talbert, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; in Spring Lake, NJ. ¶The U.S. yacht Malabar XIII, the 4,4OO-mi. international race from Havana to San Sebastian, Spain; in 28 days, arriving 48 hours ahead of its nearest rival. ¶Palestinian, the $57,100 Brooklyn Handicap, one of U.S. racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length...
Aboard the yacht Fakhr el Bihar, accompanied by two destroyers, an ambassador, three courtiers and a staff of 50 (plus five Cadillacs and a station wagon), Egypt's Queen Narriman, 17, and King Farouk, 31, arrived in Taormina, Sicily to spend the first ten days of their two-month honeymoon. The entourage took up a 60-room wing in the Hotel San Domenico, a converted monastery, where the royal couple shared what the management refers to as "the Truman suite" (named for an anticipated visit by the President which never came off): a reception room, two bedrooms, a connecting...