Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwest into a grey squall. At their head was the new cruiser Chester flying the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral George Ralph Marvell. Aboard the 27 ships of the Navy's scouting force were 5,000 officers and men. Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk of the Montauk Manor hotel above...
...ladies' apparel buyer who makes friends with a model and finds, as his friendship progresses, that she is his illegitimate daughter. Daughter Constance Bennett plays the part of the model. She is rude to her old and platonic admirer. She prefers circulating in a socialite environment, notably at Newport where she is "untrue to herself" with the assistance of a cub socialite. Penitent, she breaks her engagement with him, promises to be true to a level-headed young writer, and recognizes, for no very good reason, the old cloak & suit buyer as her father. Well-mounted, directed and acted...
...Alwyn Ball made two successive holes-in-one on a private course at Newport...
...Dorade, 52-ft. yawl sailed by Olin J. Stephens II & crew of seven: a race from Newport, R. I. to Plymouth, England, in 17 days, 2 hr., 14 min. Shrewd, 22-year-old Skipper Stephens gambled on a northern course, caught following winds most of the way. Partner in a Manhattan firm of naval architects, he designed Dorade last year, is part owner with his father who was one of his crew. Second in the race was Richard F. Lawrence's Skål; third Paul D. Rust Jr.'s Amberjack II. William Roos's sloop Lismore...
...assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. are: Samuel F. Pryor of Remington Arms Co.; lanky Vincent Astar; Frederick Baldwin Adams, chairman of Air Reduction Co. and member of the executive committee of U. S. Industrial Alcohol; Percy Avery Rockefeller; Socialite Robert Walton Goelet of Newport; Henry Osborne Havemeyer, also a director of Chase, Kennecott, and International Match; George Herbert Walker, director of American International Corp. and Barnsdall Corp.; Francis Minot Weld, also on the board of Baldwin Locomotive and Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; Guy Gary, a director of National City Bank...