Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy had its wings clipped again last week-and the Air Force gained some feathers. Defense Secretary James Forrestal, after a conference with his Chiefs of Staff at Newport, R.I., laid down the law on who does what when war comes...
...would represent the U.S. in the Davis Cup matches? Now that Jake Kramer had turned pro, the first rank of U.S. amateur tennis was a pretty lackluster lot. At Newport, R.I., last week, in the Casino Invitation tournament, the old familiar faces went through their old familiar paces in a last unofficial singles warmup before Forest Hills. This week the Davis Cup committee, to nobody's surprise, picked Veterans Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Frank Parker and Billy Talbert to represent the U.S. against Australia. But the real news at Newport was made by youngsters whom the committee...
...Ruin. In socialite Newport, scholars are having another go at the mystery of the Old Stone Mill. Led by Archeologist William S. Godfrey, the diggers will try to determine whether it is a Viking church tower or only the ruins of a windmill built by Governor Benedict Arnold (great-grandfather of Traitor Arnold) of the Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman...
...same date in 1946 (the year when the U.S. had the largest number of cases in its history), only 2,165 had been reported. Three states reported more than 50 new cases in a single week: North Carolina, 131; California, 92; Texas, 89. Five citizens of Newport News, Va. petitioned Virginia's Governor Tuck to close the border with North Carolina, where total cases in the outbreak had reached...
Catch-as-Catch-Can. In Newport, R.I., the historic Old Colony House clock stopped when the hands scissored together, caught a somnolent starling. In Milwaukee, Leon Culberson stole second base when the umpire's mask caught what the catcher missed...