Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandstand is bare. Its green & white striped roof is streaked and mottled. The gaudy umbrellas are folded and locked away. Inside the arched entrance of Newport's famed Casino, newly installed racks hold a few bicycles, and a sign reads: "Officers Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt appointed as American Commissioner his well-stuffed old friend Herbert Claiborne Pell, 59, of Newport, R.I. Best remembered job of Diplomat Pell was as U.S. Minister to Portugal, where he benevolently, talkatively steered hundreds of jittery refugees and distinguished Americans through Lisbon...
Double Trouble. In Newport, Vt., Frank Curran could not get gas for the 14-ft. motorboat he had built, even if he could get it out of his cellar...
...Washington a common gripe has been: "They'll be rationing water next." This week, WPB is considering a plan to do just that. U.S. water consumption is up an unprecedented 30%. Pumping facilities are strained to the bursting point. In many war centers-Detroit, San Diego, Newport News, Cleveland, Buffalo, Louisville-new facilities have been installed, but dangers of a shortage are still acute. War production wallows in water. Nearly 80 tons of water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed...
...rubber game. It was not the first lawn tennis match played in the U.S. (a Staten Islander named Mary Outerbridge had beaten the boys to it) but it was historic. Enthusiasts Dwight and Sears soon got their friends to lay out courts on the fashionable lawns of Nahant and Newport, and 13-year-old Dick Sears, fascinated by the game, began to improve...