Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
...Author. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 70 last January, still writes like a woman a generation younger. Born a Manhattan socialite, tutored abroad, summered at Newport, she overcame her early handicaps and became a surprisingly serious novelist. Her novelette Ethan Frame is still spoken of respectfully by bumptious younger critics. Though she has lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House...
John Campbell, assistant plant engineer of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., returned to New York last week from the home of his ancestors on the S. S. Majestic with a portfolio of rare and valuable prints, a box full of strange balls and about 80 ancient & honorable golf clubs. There were warped cleeks, battered baffys, jiggers, brassies, spoons and nibicks, the whole making the finest collection of antique golfing impedimenta ever brought to the U. S. Soon they will occupy a special museum wing in the new cruciform James River Country Club near Newport News. After...
...cost the French team a long listless match with Vines & Gledhill, 16-14, 3-6, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2. Almost everyone expected, on the showing of the teams in the semifinals, that Van Ryn & Allison would reverse the beating they took from Vines & Gledhill in the Newport final last fortnight. Instead, Vines suddenly went to the very peak of his game, dominated the match completely, poured into court a stream of bullet serves, volleys at incredible angles, drives that caught Van Ryn & Allison ankle-high. At 0-5 in the third set, Allison & Van Ryn made a last...
...Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr.: two final matches in the Newport invitation tournament; 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in the singles against his Davis Cup teammate Wilmer Allison; 6-8, 13-11, 8-6, 6-2 in the doubles, paired with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other...