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...HONSINGER Newport News...
Crimson workhorse Jack Wallace coralled his fifth win of the current season Wednesday 7 to 4 at Newport, Rhode Island, but the big right-hander had to have help in the ninth when Melville PT Boat pushed across two quick scores, loaded the bases, and had the tying run on first base...
...Duke of Windsor, ex-Governor General of the Bahamas, reported househunting in summering socialite Newport, said no he had "no intentions of ... buying property in America...
...Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
...Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down with your flag at the peak...