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...sailing cup dates from the North Haven, Me., midget dinghy series of 1940). Covering Congress and Cape Canaveral and nuclear testing, Lamont is used to avalanches of garrulity, as well as fits of secrecy. But rarely has he had such trouble getting a story as in the waters off Newport. The cup racers and selection committee members are all business, suspicious of outsiders, wary of the press, and usually "have a quaint idea that sailing is still for the upper classes...
...below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows of Darjeeling to the marble "cottages" of 19th century Newport (where a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once a dining room), most of the rich have had at least a second*#151;and often a third, fourth or fifth-house to live...
...fishing shack or hunting cabin. And wherever they are or whatever they cost, the second houses have a consistent common denominator: they are designed for informality, relaxation, easy living and no servants. Tiberius would not have understood the situation at all. And Mrs. Astor, whose second house at Newport required a staff of 30, would simply have looked the other...
...Lost Owl. The publisher introduced polo to the U.S.. won a walking match and a $6,000 purse, and built the Newport Casino after being barred by an exclusive club, the Reading Room, for riding his horse into the front hall. His personal income approached $1,000,000 a year, and he had no trouble finding all the companionship he wanted among the girls of the Tenderloin. But at 35 he became engaged to Caroline May, a Maryland society girl. Perhaps thinking better of this, he got drunk at a New Year's party at his fiancee...
During the second hour, the Forum turns to the America's Cup Races to be held off Newport, Rhode Island starting on September 15. Beer will discuss the greatest race in American yachting with Mrs. Arthur Anderson and Don MacNamara...