Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bailey's Beach, at staid old Newport, R.I., the ex-Mrs. F. Bartholomay Jelke encountered the present Mrs. F. Bartholomay Jelke, wife of the heir to oleomargarine millions, and briskly conked her with an inflated inner tube...
...facts of the matter were few, and sordid, and readily lent themselves to scareheads: somebody bludgeoned the Walter Overells aboard their cruiser in Newport bay, Calif, and blew up the boat, and the Overells with it, by a charge of dynamite rigged to an alarm clock. From the moment the cops picked up 18-year-old Daughter Beulah Louise Overell and her boy friend, Los Angeles newspapers had a field...
Married. Aerielle Frazer Strutt, 29, daughter of Automaker Joseph Washington Frazer (Kaiser-Frazer); and Eric Eweson, 49, Manhattan fertilizer chemist; both for the second time; in Newport...
Died. Perry Belmont, 96, son of Banker August Belmont, grandson of Commodore Matthew Perry, onetime Congressman from New York (1881-89), onetime U.S. Minister to Spain (1888-89); in Newport...
Robert Goelet, socialite Manhattan banker whose 50-room Newport mansion was a local showplace (and, at taxpaying time, a bottomless rathole), finally gave it away-to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, for a girls' college...