Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long the President was out of sight, out of the headlines, and at sea. He spent the week enjoying a quiet, aimless cruise on Chesapeake Bay on the yacht Williamsburg. But out of the past came another one of his unguarded, pop-off letters to put him back on Page...
...week, the presidential desk was clear and the crew had polished up the brass on the good yacht Williamsburg. Harry Truman packed up his white wool yachting cap and a covey of his best speechwriters and set out for a lazy eight-day session of waterborne poker, napping and perhaps some occasional phrasemaking in preparation for the political lists. It was to be a comfortable trip. The Williamsburg wasn't going any place in particular-just cruising along Chesapeake...
...that a midget really needs in the Sound's top event for young sailors is a boat of the 19-ft. Lightning class, good sense about sailing fundamentals and, for emergencies, the ability to swim. The 13 competitors at New Rochelle's Huguenot Yacht Club last week had a bit more than that. They were the individual champs of 13 yacht clubs and several of them had raced for the Scovill Cup before...
...good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat Bay Yacht Club, it was the first Scovill Cup victory in 25 years of midget racing...
...Korea, Harry Truman would have joined the vacation exodus from muggy Washington; he had planned a cruise off New England in the yacht Williamsburg...