Word: newport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accepted: Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, Inc., Houston's Maytag Aircraft Corp. Rejected: Jonesboro (Ark.) Grain Drying Cooperative, the Greenwich (Conn.) Gas Co., two Memphis supermarkets, a Houston real- estate firm, a Hannibal (Mo.) trucking company, Detroit's Wilson-Oldsmobile, an auto dealer...
...start, came east from St. Louis to buy the magazine and its 14,000 circulation in 1909. Elegant, wealthy Publisher Nast poured money into his new property, changed it from a weekly to a fortnightly and gradually expanded its coverage beyond the confines of Park Avenue and Newport. Edna Chase rose like a rocket through the magazine. By 1914 she was editor (at the age of 37) and began playing to the rising U.S. upper middle class. Vogue began publishing whole sections of photographs of well-dressed society leaders in all their finery and sold dress patterns around...
Dashing Louis Arpels, a proprietor of the chic Manhattan jewelry house of Van Cleef & Arpels (branches: Paris, London, Newport, Cannes, etc.), is an international gadabout, but much of his fame has been reflected from his handsome wife, Helene, perennially in the headlines as one of the world's ten best-dressed women...
...after the Revolution had swept away even the paper disabilities of religious minorities, Moses Seixas wrote to President Washington on behalf of the Jews of Newport, R. I. to tell him how thankful they were to be living under "a government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Wrote Washington in reply: "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. [In this nation] everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine...
Died. Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, U.S.N. ret., 76, twice (1934-36, 1939-42) president of the Naval War College, organizer in 1941 of the $100 million Newport Naval Base; of leukemia; in Newport...