Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Check. In Newport News, William Greer paid some bills, found he was $4 short, asked two stores to check their receipts for a $4 error. Both stores informed him: "Our cash balance is $4 over. We are mailing you a check...
Matthews Hall will lose its most distinctive figure tomorrow when Victor Ehler trades in his janitor's duties to take over the position of Chief Gunner's Mate in the Navy. Vic will leave for the Newport, R. I. training station to rejoin the Navy after almost 17 years at Harvard...
Gertrude Niesen's $2,000,000 marble palace in Newport (bought for the torch-singer by Mama Niesen for $20,000) was visited by a man from the water department when the meter had run up a $600 bill. He walked in on a 50-room skating rink, on floors buried under half a foot of ice, to see the grand staircase a magnificent frozen waterfall. The pipes had frozen and burst...
Besides his lectures on International Economic Relations at the University, Professor de Haas annually gives three or four lectures at the Naval War School in Newport. His appointment as Chairman of the Netherlands Post-war Planning Committee will in no way affect his position at the University, Professor de Haas has revealed...
...their great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...