Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warren Fales Draper, 47, knows Virginia's health conditions as well as any one in the State. He lives at Cherrydale. During the War, as assistant surgeon in the Health Service, he had charge of extra-cantonment sanitation at Petersburg and Newport News. After the War, the late Commissioner Williams borrowed him to help develop rural sanitation in Virginia counties...
...notable change has come over "Oggie" Mills since he entered the Treasury four years ago as the dictatorial, rather supercilious scion of a wealthy old family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made...
...hustles away to his office by 9:15 a. m. In slack times the Undersecretary slips out to Burning Tree Club where he plays an 85-10-90 game of golf. In Manhattan the Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport villa. Two chauffeurs are kept busy with four cars, one of them a handsome Isotta Fraschini. Last spring at the Pusey & Jones shipyards in Wilmington, Mrs. Mills christened her husband's new 160-ft. yacht Avalon...
...From Newport to Washington last week hurried Evelyn Walsh McLean, wearer of the famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...
Engaged. Elizabeth Brinton Kent, daughter of Arthur Atwater Kent (radios) of Philadelphia; and William Laurens Van Alen,* member of the Oxford-Cambridge tennis team which played against Yale-Harvard at Newport in 1929, descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, grandson of the late Ambassador to Italy James J. Van Alen...