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Died. Philip Ainsworth Means, 52, cautious, round-faced anthropologist-ex-explorer, Inca lore expert, speculator about "the most enigmatic and puzzling building in the U.S.," the Newport, R.I. "Old Stone Mill'';* of diabetes; in Boston...
...From Newport to Hollywood. Van Dell Johnson, of Swedish extraction, was brought up in Newport, R.I. At 19 he abandoned a boyish ambition to be a trapeze artist in favor of a theatrical career in New York. The career, such as it was, lasted six years. It wound up in Hollywood, under contract to Warners at $300 a week, with little work and less attention. Johnson was about to leave town when Lucille Ball gave him a fight-talk and an introduction to Metro...
...brilliant youth, the one English novelist that young Henry James of New York, Albany, Newport and Boston admired was George Eliot. He studied her works, wrote essays about her, sent her autographed copies of his first two books. When, at 26, he went to England to live, in 1869, he was taken to visit her as solemnly as a promising recruit led into the presence of the general. It was a doleful experience. George Eliot sat glum and uncommunicative, old, cold, heavy and slow. The only sign of life she showed was when James was leaving. Then she said...
...four-starred blue flag of Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll fluttered down from the aftermast of the historic frigate Constellation at Newport, and the flag of a new Admiral went up. After almost three years as Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CinCLant), efficient, Gothic-faced Admiral Ingersoll had moved on to a new job. By this week he was busy, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, speeding the flow of ships, men and supplies across the Pacific to Annapolis Classmate Chester W. Nimitz...
This is as close to rough talk as This Was My Newport ever gets. The memories of Maud Howe Elliott reach back to the days when Newport tradespeople sent out their bills once or twice a year and closed their shops at noon. At the height of the Newport season, the regulars counted on dining out every night of the week. At two Newport homes, Mrs. Ogden Mills's and Mrs. Elbridge Gerry's, dinner for 100 could be served without calling in outside help. Dinner began at 8:30 and lasted three hours, until King Edward...