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...Basin Saturday the Yachtsmen will chase the Bruins around the buoys, while on Sunday, the M.I.T. navy is scheduled to sail with the Crimson. Yardling boatsmen will travel north to race Dartmouth on the Sabbath...
Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday...
...death, is uniformly convincing. Interspersed in the chronicle, however, are snapshot glimpses of life on its various planes on the Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most readers will agree that Author Hemingway can rest well content with the knowledge that in Harry Morgan, hard, ruthless, implacable in his lonely struggle...
...atmosphere of the R. Y. S. is more nearly that of a cathedral than of a club. Founded in 1815 by London yachtsmen "to promote seamanship and the improvement of sailing vessels," it has 250 members (including 19 women) who cheerfully pay 100 guineas entrance fee, 100 guineas a year, has headquarters in a turreted fortress built by Henry VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying...
Shrewd enough as a card player to have invented the "Vanderbilt Convention" at contract bridge, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt is no less canny as a yachtsman. When he sold his old boat to Chandler Hovey and ordered a new one, yachtsmen were well aware that he and his famed designer, W. Starling Burgess, must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America...