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Sometime that summer I was required to stay either in New York or New Haven over a weekend and took advantage of it to accompany Bill Libby on a brief visit to his family's home in Plymouth.  We drove to Plymouth on Saturday and returned Sunday.  I remember that it was a delightful trip.  It was made during the America's Cup races at Newport, which provided color.  And I was deeply impressed with the refinement and charm of Bill's family as well as Plymouth itself, where some of my ancestors had landed from the MAYFLOWER in 1620.  I remember that I had these feelings but unfortunately my only record of the trip are a few hastily-scribbled notes on a small piece of paper which did well to survive at all.  We drove up in Bill's car, make and model forgotten, going on U.S.1 along the shore through New London and Groton, where we got a bird's eye view of the famed Electric Boat Company plant which would soon be awash with submarine work for World War II, and thence through Westerly, where we hit rain, to Narragansett Pier.  At that point, we took the ferry for Newport, which crossed the lower end of Narragansett Bay and gave us a view of the race course for the America's Cup.  Not only that but also the big fleet of ships of many kinds which were assembled around Newport for yachting's most famous race.  There was an American and a British battle cruiser, several destroyers, numerous Coast Guard craft, and an Eastern Steamship Line spectator ship.  But besides all this there was a fleet of luxurious private yachts which were far and away beyond anything I'd ever dreamed existed, among them the NOURMAHAL and the ALOHA, both names still sounding familiar after all this time.  The ALOHA belonged to Arthur Curtis James, another familiar name, but that's about all at this point in time.  But the biggest thrill came from seeing the two beautiful contenders riding at anchor in Newport Harbor.  The America's Cup defender was RAINBOW and the British challenger, ENDEAVOUR.  It seems to me that the skipper of the RAINBOW was Harold Vanderbilt while the British owner and skipper was Sir Thomas Sopwith, the airplane manufacturer.  [[underlined]] NOTE: [[/underlined]]  I have suddenly discovered during a check of some references on Harold Vanderbilt, that this trip to Plymouth was made in 1934 and not 1937.  I realize this now because my notes definitely refer to RAINBOW, which was the successful defender in 1934 whereas RANGER was the equally successful defender in 1937.  ENDEAVOUR was the challenger in 1934 while ENDEAVOUR II was the 1937 challenger, both belonging to Sopwith while Vanderbilt skippered both RAINBOW and RANGER.  So this account is just three years late but that shouldn't make any difference.  [[/underlined]] END NOTE. [[/underlined]]  Ashore in Newport, Bill and I drove around the fabulous "summer colony" of the multi-millionaires, where the cost of many of the homes was in the millions.  Which makes me think now of Thornton Wilder's wonderful novel "Theophilus North" which I read in Hawaii last winter-all about Newport.  At one point, we saw an old man come ashore from one of the luxury yachts and get into