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England's 1937 America's Cup Challenge Recalls Newport Race Past
Henry McLemore shares memories of America’s Cup battles off Newport Rhode Island. He recalls Tom Sopwith and Harold Vanderbilt, the size of 140 foot class J yachts, pioneer reporting challenges, and Broadway gamblers aboard a paddle wheeler fleeing the Atlantic swells and fear of returns to Broadway.
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England
Newport
R. I
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vincent Astor
Coast Guard
Norsaga
Ben Grauer
J. P. Morgan
Britannia
McLemores
Tom Sopwith
Harold Vanderbilt
Sopwith
Vanderbilt
New York
Paramount
Belmont Track
Madison Square Garden
Broadway