Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging Sold by the town of Newport, R.I. for $11,370.64 in back taxes plus a dollar was Evalyn Walsh McLean's villa, "By-the-Sea." James O'Donnell, operator of a chain of Washington drugstores, got it for less than one-tenth of its assessed valuation. Mrs. McLean has not used it for years. Mrs. Herbert Shipman's mansion across the street, built at a cost of some $1,000,000, went begging at the same sale. Taxes due: $12,366.33. Now it belongs to Newport...
...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...
After less than a year's ownership and rare visits to it, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen's parents sold the fabulous marble villa in Newport that mother had said she was buying daughter for a birthday present. Famed as "the Tessie Oelrichs mansion," it cost some $2,500,000 to build in 1902. The Niesens bought it for $21,000, sold...
...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...
...Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...