Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to return. The last to report their boat was a fisherman who said he saw them hove to about 10 at night with a larger craft alongside. Then a man's body, bound and strapped to a 98-lb. chunk of iron, washed ashore in the Trinidad Yacht Club's bay. The victim was identified as Philbert Peyson, member of an organized gang of burglars, holdup men-and possibly pirates. There was reason to believe that he was under suspicion by his fellow gangsters as an informer...
M.I.T. is favored to win the Providence regatta today and tomorrow at the Edge-wood Yacht Club, although Brown and Yale will offer stiff competition, and Harvard, Coast Guard, Rhode Island State, and Boston College are not far behind. Williams and Northeastern are expected to trail the field. The winner will go to California in June for the national title races...
...resent your slur on the shipbuilders of New England: the presidential yacht Williamsburg "rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor . . ." [TIME, March...
...played a mean trick on his own avant-garde admirers by reverting to painting gushy landscapes of Southern France, where he spent much of his time racing around in flashy motorcars or lolling aboard his yacht...
...Lose Weight. Later that day the skies cleared and the Williamsburg's round-bottomed hull slid smoothly through level seas. When the yacht docked at Key West on the fifth day, the President announced that he had lost four pounds, but hardily insisted that it had been a pleasant voyage...