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...semiformal evening requiring a tuxedo. This outfit is the only species of formal wear which immortalizes an American town--Tuxedo, N. Y. It gained its excellent name through an incident in 1886. In that gilded year a member of the 400 appeared at a Newport gala with the tails neatly snipped off his frock coat. Understandably scandalized, the fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost...
Johnny McCluskey's slingshot arm will probably get a good workout as the Crimson seeks its first Ivy League victory of the season. The J.V.'s have beaten Massachusetts, Rutgers, and Newport Naval Station, but lost to Brown in their only conference game to date...
...squad will face the Newport Naval Station in the fourth game of the season this Friday night...
...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...
...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...