Word: newport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visible reason, John (Teahouse of the August Moon) Patrick's screenplay detours the action from the Philadelphia Main Line to the equally posh confines of Newport. There, frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down...
PROMOTER LOUIS WOLFSON, who built Merritt-Chapman & Scott into a $135 million diversified corporation, is beginning to prune back. He plans to sell a profitable subsidiary, Newport Steel (1955 earnings: $626,287), to Chicago's Acme Steel Co. Previously sold Merritt-Chapman subsidiaries in '56: Nesco Division (house-wares), Utah Radio Products, Shoup Voting Machine Corp...
Last week, at another by-election in Newport, Monmouthshire, the Tories conducted a campaign designed to correct all the minor faults envisioned at Tonbridge. Big names by the score journeyed down from London to counter local apathy at the polls. The Tory candidate, 39-year old Stockbroker Donald Box, was a local product; his Labor opponent, Sir Frank Soskice, an outsider. The choice between them rested with an electorate whose light Labor majority is well-tempered by a solidly Conservative bloc of prosperous farm owners, shopkeepers and small businessmen. The result: 6,811 fewer voters went to the polls than...
...catch every puff of wind as she bowled past Bermuda's St. David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally passage for the record field of 89 boats, and one had even gone down on a Bermuda reef. But Finisterre's owner, Carleton Mitchell...
...rhumb-line distance to Bermuda is 635 miles, but since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675. Finisterre took a starboard tack off Newport with a 163° compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole...