Word: newporter
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Harvard lost its first game to Princeton, 12-7, last week and has triumphed over the University of Connecticut, Newport Naval Academy, Dartmouth, and Tufts...
Just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati glow the red lights of Newport, Ky. (pop. 30,000), a venerable sin center and hardly a place where a reformer is likely to succeed. But last week a reformer was elected sheriff of Campbell County, which includes Newport. He is George Ratterman. 35, former Notre Dame and Cleveland Browns quarterback, now a television commentator for American Football League games...
Ratterman campaigned on a promise to clean out Newport-and the city's vice lords set out to double-team him. They framed him by giving him knockout drops, then arranging to have him arrested in bed with a stripper named April Flowers. The courts cleared Ratterman, who is the father of eight children, and a grand jury later indicted Newport's Police Chief Upshere White on a charge of having conspired to railroad Ratterman...
Ratterman's election was won not in Newport itself but by a flood of votes from the rest of the county. That made him even more determined to reform Newport. Said he: "I will call on the Governor, the Federal Government and even the United Nations, if necessary, to enforce law and order.'' A couple of beefy football squads might help...
...Crimson has been virtually untested in Ivy play this year, since games against Brown and Penn were cancelled. But before squeaking by Dartmouth the Crimson J.V. trounced Newport Navy, Tufts, and Connecticut...