Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work as far from Wall Street as possible. With a personal fortune estimated to be in the neighborhood of $10 million (he draws only $20,000 a year as board chairman of Alleghany, another $7,500 as board chairman of C. & O.), he lives most of the year at Newport, in a 40-room Tudor-style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels in his private car. His Cleveland office...
...long the upper stratum of Palm Beach and Newport society was chilly toward the Youngs. In 1936, they gave their only child, Eleanor, one of the most spectacularly lavish coming-out parties in Newport's history. But since 1941, when Eleanor was killed in an airplane crash, the Youngs have become much less active -and entirely acceptable. If nothing else, their closeness to the Windsors would generally insure them top seeding in social tournaments...
Looking at the marble palaces built by U.S. financial titans, Novelist Henry James once described Newport as a "breeding ground for white elephants." Some of them now loom chipped and sagging in the long grass, but they still make an imposing trunk-to-tail parade down and around Bellevue Avenue. Their gates are generally shut to the public, but last week from paintings on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery, the curious could get an idea of what the elephants' insides looked like...
...Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...
Dobujinsky's Newport water colors looked like stage sets for a slow-motion ballet of ghosts in frock coats or lowcut, glittery gowns...