Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sain feels that he is finally cashing in on the "years I was working for peanuts and learning how to pitch." For four years, beginning in 1936, he floundered in the lowest labyrinth of the minors-with Osceola, Ark. and Newport, Ark. It was the same story everywhere he played in those days: good curve, no fast ball...
...woman. Bromfield pronounces her "one of the gayest people I know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes as the women's equal-rights amendment, for which she has lobbied tirelessly for years. With unconscious wistfulness, she explains: "Only the busy person...
...Exchange; J. F. Brine, sporting goods; W. H. Brine, sporting goods; Ada Bullock's Restaurant; Diane Christine, women's clothing; Economy Watch Co., watch repairing; Eddy's Cleansers; Stephen Farrell Cravat Co.; Joe Foster Co., shoes; General Appliance Co.; Green's Luggage Shop; Johnson Printing Co., stationery; Kay's Newport, women's clothing; Kupersmith, florist; Samuel Narcus, stationery; Paul's Shoes; Penn the Florist; C. C. Poters, general appliances; Renmore Inc., women's clothing; Richard Clothes; University Typewriter Exchange; Yoland
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...
...wrote You're the Top floating along the Rhine in a Falt-boot, Night and Day on the beach at Newport, and It's DeLovely on the high seas,. His songs have felt the influence of his wanderings. What Is This Thing Called Love? was suggested by a native dance in Morocco's Marrakech, and he developed the music of Begin the Beguine from a war-dance chant he heard in Kalabahi, a small island in the Netherlands Indies (he had already got the title idea from a Martinique cafe in Paris...