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...defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials ended and on the bulletin board of the Club's Newport station, the America's Cup Committee announced its decision...
...students have any money, the $4,000 signs on the annual Prix de Rome shine like a rainbow. There are four such prizes-in painting, sculpture, architecture, landscaping. Each means two years at the American Academy in Rome. Competitors must be bachelors under 30, winners must promise not to marry until their two years are up. Since 1926 Yale's School of Fine Arts has had something of a corner on the Rome prizes, especially in painting and sculpture...
...went to John Amore of New York City, a 25-year-old professional who was trained at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, has worked on Manhattan's Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...
From the ticket sale, attendance at the Jubilee is estimated at 700; further admissions at the door will be $4.50 single, $5.50 couple. Al Douahue fresh from Radio City's Rainbow Room, will supply the music, and supper will be served at midnight...
...last winter's most important job was five U. S. destroyers (TIME, Nov. 23), Ranger, first America's Cup yacht in 25 years to have an all-steel hull, was whacked together in 140 days. She inherited most of her sails, deck fittings and cabin equipment from Rainbow, which Skipper Vanderbilt dismantled before selling. She inherited her name from Captain John Paul Jones's flagship, captured by the British at Charleston...