Word: newport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scorecard for the fourth hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole total of 299. ¶Turning the biennial Newport-Annapolis race around and sailing northward made some refreshing changes in the East Coast yachting classic: more boats than ever before (48) beat down Chesapeake Bay from the starting line; they swung north toward -Newport, and 32 of them broke the elapsed-time record for the 468-mile course. Winner on corrected...
...Reader Vernon's family says the painting (see cut) was given to an ancestor, William Henry Vernon of Newport, R.I., by Marie Antoinette not long before she was beheaded in 1793. It hung until 1833 in Vernon's collection at Newport where it was listed as "A Nun, a finished picture by Leonardo da Vinci." In recent years the Vernon family has kept it in a bank vault in Manhattan...
...Asian influenza, sweeping around the world (TIME, June 24), broke out in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet destroyer force based on Newport, R.I. By last count, about 500 men had the disease-out of 27,500 men on the 110 Newport-based ships, There were no deaths. Laboratory tests showed the virus to be of the mutant Type A first detected in the Orient...
...forecasts. Last year some 30 million Americans went down to the sea in 5,971,000 powerboats and sailboats, spent $1.25 billion on their hobby; this year they will spend $1.5 billion, and add another 500,000 craft to the U.S. pleasure fleet. From Maine to California's Newport-Balboa harbor, where a flotilla of 7,000 yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed...
Died. Ben W. Hooper, 86, onetime (1911-15) Republican governor of Tennessee, who was credited with averting a nationwide railroad strike in 1921 after getting together with railwaymen; of pneumonia ; in Newport, Tenn...