Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WATSON U.S.S. Melville Newport...
...hundred and seventy miles south, on the same Atlantic coast, a pea-soup fog swallowed two other joyriders. Nicholas S. Embiricos, 32, Greek-born director of a London shipping firm, and Mrs. Eleanor Young, 23 (ex-Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon Jr., ex-Manhattan glamor girl), had taken off from Newport, R.I. in a Fairchild monoplane to fly to New York. At Matunuck, twelve miles down the coast, amateur Pilot Embiricos circled, found a rift in the fog, nosed downward for a landing. As he leveled off, a wave slapped the wings, and the plane crashed in shallow water. Embiricos died...
...Newport Casino, having swallowed its pride and opened its tennis courts to all who could pay, has swallowed again and let a Naval officers' club come right indoors. Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess...
...spoiled the countryside; the creeks turned into muddy sewers; pigs fed on the bodies of war horses. The boys from Covington built a fort, stole black powder, and shot nails and gravel at the kids from Newport across the Licking River. The Newport boys stole revolvers and shot at the kids from Covington when they went swimming. One of Dan's friends shot a Newport boy with a shotgun load of nails and gravel. "We did not understand," said Dan Beard, ". . . why it was wrong for the boys to fight when all the men of the nation were fighting...
Married. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 54, co-author (with James Norman Hall) of Mutiny on the Bounty; and Laura Whiley, 30; each for the second time; in Reno. He was divorced from a little brown woman in Tahiti in 1936; she in Newport...