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JAMES VAN ALEN Newport...
...Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from Manhattan flew Marylou Whitney (with a sequined bee on her bonnet), along with Newport's Jimmy and Candy Van Alen, Gardiner's Island's Robert Gardiner, Hollywood's Carol Channing and politics' Ted Sorensen and Richard Nixon...
...game's archaic scoring system may be replaced with something akin to James Van Alen's VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), in which zero is zero, a point is a point, one game of 31 points decides a match, and both spectators and players are spared such dreary marathons as one of the doubles contests at last month's Newport Hall of Fame Invitational. The match lasted 6 hrs. 10 min., and the final score was 3-6, 49-41, 22-20. With that ever-present possibility, it is no wonder that the West Side...
...Margaret Van Alen Bruguiere, the summer colony's grande dame, still lives in her 50-room "cottage," Wake-hurst, surrounded by a fortune in art and a dozen servants. Bailey's Beach, where the memberships pass from father to son, is still "the most exclusive swimming hole in the U.S." In the Newport Casino, ladies still sip tea under parasols, while their husbands, decked out in white flannels and old school blazers, watch the tennis matches. And at nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression...
...true, and it slows the game just enough so that the player's skill can show." In the coming weeks, Center Court will be installed at some 30 clubs, including Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club and the Newport Casino. Predicts Newport Casino President Jimmy Van Alen: "These new courts are going to bring a new look to tennis. They are going to have such an explosion on tennis in the U.S. that it's going to be unbelievable...