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England's September America's Cup Challenge Returns After 21 Years
A veteran observer recalls England's 21 year wait to challenge for the America's Cup off Newport Rhode Island. The piece revisits 1934 memory of Tom Sopwith and Harold Vanderbilt, notes class J yacht maneuvers, and describes a 1937 spectacle with Broadway gamblers aboard a paddle steamer arriving off Newport.
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England
Newport
R. Ete
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vincent Astor
Coast Guard
Norsaga
Ben Grauer
P. Morgan
Britannia
McLemores
Tom Sopwith
Harold Vanderbilt
Sopwith
Vanderbilts
New York
Atlantic
Jean
Paramount
Belmont Track
Madison Square Garden
Broadway