Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte...
Challenger. A new rule for the America's Cup races gives the challenger the right to change entry up to within 60 days of the first race, if trials produce a faster boat than the one named in the challenge. While Weetamoe, Yankee and rainbow were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks...
...penance and as means of saving money for the Church of God and its charities. He accepts no salary, only a monthly offering. He has three automobiles, one an ancient Ruxton. His favorite observation: "I don't think God would like that." He also runs churches in Newport News and Baltimore. But for his biggest gatherings he needs large auditoriums or stadiums. Announcing all his programs as coming from "the banks of the Potomac," Elder Michaux sometimes conducts mammoth baptismal services, with white-clad participants splashing in the river or Chesapeake Bay and spectators on gaily decorated barges...
...Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U. S. admiral its active head. Mackay Radio & Telegraph an nounced that on July 1 Rear Admiral Luke McNamee will become president, succeeding pink-cheeked Clarence Hungerford Mackay who will assume the chairmanship. Now 63 and head of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I.. Admiral McNamee is regarded as the handsomest admiral in the Navy. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1892, served on the U. S. S. Princeton in the Spanish American War, as a staff officer in the World War. Since then he has held many a sonorous...
Robert Remington Covell '35 of Newport, Rhode Island, was elected president of the Pierian Sodality at a meeting of the organization last night. Other officers elected were; Edward G. Acomb '35, vice president; Lemuel B. Hunter '37, secretary; Robert F. Dine '37, treasurer; Albert G. Sweetser '37, manager; Arthur Ellison '37, assistant manager; and George W. Brown '37, librarian...