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Born. To Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt; a second daughter...
...four yachts built to compete for the right to race with Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V: a trial in Long Island Sound with the Resolute, cup defender in 1920, by 10 min., 30 sec. over a 22-mi. course. In a later race, with Harold Vanderbilt sailing her and the Vanitie as an added starter, she won again, this time by eight minutes...
Heir Expected; by Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the sole U. S. family to have its expectancies almost invariably made known...
Weetamoe. John Pierpont Morgan was not there, but his son Junius was and so were General Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerard Lambert, all members of the owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home...
Enterprise, first and smallest of four yachts planned by rival U. S. syndicates to contend for the honor of defending America's cup. Awaiting Enterprise at City Island, N. Y., was "the biggest mast ever stepped into a sailing craft of any kind anywhere." Her backers: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Vincent Astor. George Fisher Baker Jr., Ogden Livingston Mills. E. Walter Clark, Floyd Leslie Carlisle. George Whitney. Christener: Mrs. Aldrich...