Word: newporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maxim Karolik, 69, the opera tenor from Petrograd who emigrated to the U.S., married a proper Bostonian millionairess and became the most conspicuous collector of 19th century American art, divides most of his time these days between his late wife's summer mansion in Newport and the Ritz in Boston. At the Ritz he usually lunches alone, but every few bites he springs across the room to greet in heavily accented English some acquaintance at another table. In Newport his batonlike index finger waves to the accompaniment of an avalanche of talk, which is usually about Maxim Karolik...
...young lady's debut is merely the beginning, and nobody knows it better than Manhattan's Multi-Cotillionairess Marguerite Slocum, 18. Since her official launching on the bubbly high seas of society last August at a Newport ball for 700, Marguerite has been presented at the Tuxedo Autumn Ball, the Grosvenor, the First Junior Assembly, is yet to be introduced at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, the Second Junior Assembly and the International Ball. Fed to the décolletage with the standard dress for such affairs, Maverick Marguerite set Manhattan lorgnettes snapping when she appeared...
When President Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba, a U.S. fleet was on its way within hours. The U.S.S. Blandy, a destroyer, shoved off so quickly from Newport that it left behind its paymaster and his moneybags. On payday Lieut. James Eilberg, the supply officer, doled out the ship's petty-cash hoard of $9,500, then collected money as it was spent in the ship's store, post office and "gedunk" (soda shop), and parceled it back out until everyone was paid...
...Colorado, and another $3,221,813 contract to supply eight pump turbines for a federal reclamation project in California's San Joaquin valley. It won the awards simply because its bids ranged from 5% to 41% lower than those of such competing U.S. giants as Allis-Chalmers and Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Hitachi, whose sales in the past five years have increased 280% to last year's $1 billion, thus made an important advance in its drive to excel in highly industrialized markets...
...summer of 1959, another folk singer invited her to the first Folk Festival at Newport, R.I. Her clear-lighted voice poured over the 13,000 people collected there and chilled them with surprise. The record-company leg-and-fang men closed in. "Would you like to meet Mitch, Baby?" said a representative of Columbia Records, dropping the magic name of Mitch Miller, who is Columbia's top pop artists-and-repertory man when he isn't waving to his mother...