Word: belcourt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...festival as it did in 1954; only an unseasonable dry spell that summer, they pointed out, prevented the tennis courts from being ruined by stomping feet, and what they called the "sanitary facilities" had been deplorably inadequate. Jazz-loving Socialite Louis L. Lorillard promptly paid $22,500 for Belcourt, the enormous, run-down pile of the late O.H.P. Belmont, and announced that this was where things would jump during the festival's three days. At this the neighbors set up a well-modulated howl and complained to the city fathers. Eventual compromise: jam sessions in the city-owned ballfield...