Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Juan Domingo Perón, who was even then embarking with his wife on an excursion up the Paraná River for some ceremonies in connection with the Year of San Martin. Police cutters were hastily ordered out, with machine guns at the ready, to escort the presidential yacht. Police jeeps raced along the banks of the river spotting "intriguers." At the ceremony itself, the President could hardly be seen for the swarm of blue-uniformed police who surrounded...
When Potter Palmer built his house on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive in 1882, it had all the appurtenances of a princely European castle except the princes. The redoubtable Mrs. Potter Palmer took care of that. She chartered a yacht, set off for Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II, and returned triumphantly with a swatch of Russian princelings and princesses to waltz in her velvet-lined ballroom...
Cheer & Perseverance. To top off his triumphant leap into the social whirl, quick-acting Sir Thomas, never a yachting fan, surprised everyone by issuing a transatlantic challenge for the America's Cup. During the next 30 years he combined yachting with business, raced five different Shamrocks against U.S. defenders, never won the cup. A year before Lipton's death in 1931, Comedian Will Rogers wrote a letter to the New York Times suggesting that "everybody send $1 apiece for a fund to buy a loving cup for Sir Thomas Lipton, bigger than the one he would have...
That summer the Scituate Yacht Club hired Grover as swimming instructor and "deckhand." In the course of turning out the clubhouse lights one night, Charlie ignored a peremptory request by a solitary individual he had never seen before that the lights be left on. The individual turned out to be an ex-commodore and person of some standing in the club...
...Bertie Holliday admired his taste in jewelry. It was natural enough; his business card read "Dealer in precious stones." He had a lavishly furnished flat in London and a country home on an island in the Thames at Old Windsor. Bertie rode to hounds, cruised the river in his yacht, and was a familiar figure at the nearby Ascot track. Some of the best people went to his cocktail parties...