Word: newport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This game will be the first played by a Crimson team on California soil since the varsity football team opened its '49 season with a 44-0 loss to Stanford. Since then, the Yacht Club has twice sailed to second place in the Intercollegiate Dinghy Championships hold in Newport Harbor, Calif...
Died. Archer Milton Huntington, 85, multimillionaire founder, with his family, of 13 U.S. museums, including Newport News's Mariners' Museum, Manhattan's Hispanic Society, son of Collis P. H. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific railway; in Bethel, Conn...
...Nicholas Brown (once renowned as "the world's richest baby"), to boat-loving Swedish Shipping Magnate Sven Salen, whose line of six-meter yachts (all christened Maybe) is a perennial threat in Eastern U.S. sailing contests. Price paid for Bolero, Class A winner of the 1950 and 1954 Newport-to-Bermuda races, was undisclosed. Her original cost...
...bullring aficionado. Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...
Miss Taunton, when contacted last night in Newport, R.L., could not deny that she had contracted this fall to write for a College undergraduate a 60-page thesis on the topic: "The role of Michael Bakunin in the Russian Revolutionary Movement of the Nineteenth Century"; that she had met with the undergraduate in Widener and given him a preliminary bibliography and 20 pages of typed book-notes on the subject; and that she had accepted for these services $7--approximately one-third of the $20 total cost of the thesis. Like Miss Taunton's business letters, the bibliography and notes...