Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grahame White (1910), paid a $25 fine for driving without a license and driven a four-in-hand coach down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on a January morning to win a $25 bet (1912). She had swum 4¼ miles, from Bailey's Beach to First Beach. Newport, and formed the nucleus of a collection of cups which, when she last counted them, numbered 240. She had also been one of New England's outstanding trapshooters. She once organized a football team on which she played fullback. She also played baseball and hockey. She exhibited her interest...
Founder Flagler lived only one year after his triumphal entry into Key West. The bulk of his fortune was left to his wife, Mary Lily Flagler, who was a seamstress in a Newport mansion when Mr. Flagler met her while visiting her employers. Later she married Robert Worth Bingham, now U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. To him she left $5,000,000, but again the bulk of the Flagler fortune went undivided into a trusteed estate. In her will, Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler Bingham made one provision which has kept lawyers guessing ever since. For 21 years the residuary...
...winning time, established by Jarvis of the Newport Ski Club, was two minutes, 45 seconds. Carpenter's tenth place time was three minutes, ten seconds, which would have been considerably lower if conditions had been more favorable...
Although handicapped by playing on a small floor, the Yearling basketball team scored a 35-26 victory over St. George's School at Newport Saturday afternoon. Taking the lead early in the first period, the Crimson held it throughout the game...
...Keley, California, economics; Carl E. Thomas, of Belmont, economics; Richard R. Goodwin, of Brockline, biology Branford P. Millar, of Warsaw, New York, English; Kenneth P. Miller, of Columbus, Ohio, English; Meyer R. Abrams of Long Branch, New Jerees. English; Basis W. Kchler, of Thun, communication engineering; Demorested of Newport. Rhode Island Biology and Olot H. Pearson, of Destenter biology...