Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams, owner of the Boston Bruins and Treasurer of First National Stores was born in Newport. Vt., Oct. 19. 1876, the son of Frank W. Adams of that town. His grandfather Abail and his great-grandfather Deacon Martin Adams also lived in Xewport. Vt. Deacon Martin Adams was in the Revolutionary...
Results of a complete reorganization in Phillips Brooks House, necessitated by the death of Richard G. Ames '34 this summer, were announced yesterday after prolonged conferences of the cabinet. Ames, who lost his life in the Newport-to-Norway sailing race in June, was to have been graduate secretary...
...They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green & pink walls and flanked with tall striped barber poles...
...which he sometimes seems most lacking elsewhere -savoir-faire. The quality which he will need most if he is to develop into a Class A tennis champion is confidence, and his demeanor this summer indicates that he is rapidly acquiring it. In the final at Newport, Shields returned a first serve by mistake and then courteously called: "Take two. . . ." Replied grinning Budge: "One's plenty." He served once, won the point...
...Newport, N. H., twelve skiers jumped on pine needles instead of snow. One Jack Holden of Putney, Vt. made the best jump-31 feet...