Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played today is so young that one man's lifetime spans its entire history. Last week that man, prim old Bostonian Richard Dudley Sears, who helped establish the modern game of lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats and the genteel pat of ball against languid strings...
...only Dr. Peabody remains "of the generation of schoolmasters who built the U.S. private preparatory-school system" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Seventy-nine years old, long good friend and obviously contemporary of Groton's Peabody, Rev. Dom J. Hugh Diman, O.S.B., founded distinguished St. George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school in the U.S. No other...
...being given for the members of the Harvard Dramatic Club, whose presentation of the Russian play, "Mashenka", was given this winter in Cambridge and Newport...
...Newport News, Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commander of the carrier Yorktown when she was sunk after Midway, June 7, was midstream in a speech celebrating the launching of a new carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...
Scene: The music room in the palatial villa of Mrs. Lafcadio Mifflin at Newport. Mrs. Mifflin, a majestic woman in a slim-pin Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...