Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Helena Sturtevant, 74, grand old lady of Newport, R.I.'s art colony, whose paintings were exhibited at the town's Art Association, and whose etchings are represented in New York City's Public Library; in Newport...
...alternate selection follows U.S. Highway 3 to Manchester, New Hampshire, State Highway 114 from there to Bradford, State Highway 103 from Bradford to Sunapee, State Highway 11 from Sunapee to Newport, and State Highway 10 from Newport to Hanover...
...Highway 3 to Manchester, N.H., State Highway 114 from Manchester to Bradford, State Highway 103 from Bradford to Sunapee, State Highway 11 from Sunapee to Newport, and, finally, State Highway 10 from Newport to Hanover...
Died. Thomas ("Tom") Pettitt, 86, British-born, mustachioed grand old man of court tennis; in Newport, R. I. A onetime locker-boy for the first U.S. court-tennis court (in Boston), he taught himself the ancient, highly specialized game (played in large, complicated, enclosed courts, with pear-shaped racquets and complex rules), revolutionized classic court style with his smashing drives ("When I get a fair sight of the ball, I hit it, and I hit it damned hard"). Tom Pettitt made both court-tennis history and legend, in his heyday was reputed to have defeated many an opponent while using...
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