Word: newporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lammot Copeland Jr., son of Du Font's president. The paper has resumed its old name and much of its old flavor. Russell Quisenberry is back, as board chairman. The new publisher is a self-styled "Constitutionalist" named Ben Reddick, a public relations man who ran the triweekly Newport Beach News-Press so haphazardly that the Audit Bureau of Circulation was moved to comment in 1961: "The condition of the circulation records made an ac curate audit for the previous 24 months impossible...
...Harvard students will help sail Endeavour I, a famous British racing schooner, from England to the United States next June. The vessel will be the first ship in the marine museum to be established at Newport...
...foot Endeavour "probably came closer to winning the America Cup than any other British boat," according to John Millar '64. Millar originated the idea for the Newport Museum and has been active in preparing for the schooner's transatlantic voyage. This summer he traveled to England to inspect Endeavour...
...Newport Marine Museum will be established under the suspices of the Newport Historical Society. Present plans call for the purchase of two or three other boats within the next several years, Millar said. Shamrock V, which challenged for the America Cup in 1930, would probably be the first of these. The U.S.S. Constellation, a sister ship of the Constitution, and the schooner Atlantic, which holds the record for crossing the Atlantic under sail, are also under consideration...
...over Irvine's residential region, bulldozers and graders, carpenters and builders were busy this week. At Dover Shores, a development on upper Newport Bay, 70 houses of the planned 311 have already been completed (60% of the homesites in this development were sold in two months, for houses costing from $46,000 to $190,000). And earthmovers were digging away at a 160-ft.-high dam that will hold a billion gallons of water to be used by the University of California and the residents of Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach...