Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...
...into winning the Viet Nam war more quickly ("I'm not as scared of China as some people are"), calls for more steps to stop inflation. Moreover, she seems able to throw a continuous barrage of barbs at Claiborne Pell, whom she calls a "curlyheaded croquet player from Newport." Referring to Pell's good looks, she says: "I concede that if the election were on the basis of looks, I would lose. My campaign managers wanted me to do something with my hair, lose 20 lbs. and put some sex appeal into the campaign; but my reaction...
...quitting the stage temporarily. The baby that she refers to as "Kid" is due in December, after which she will report to Hollywood to begin filming Funny Girl. But before taking her maternity leave, Barbra had to say goodbye to her worshipers with a concert tour of stadiums in Newport, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago...
Married. Janet Jennings Auchincloss, 21, half-sister of Jacqueline Kennedy; and Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, 21, Princeton '66; in Newport, R.I., in an event-of-the-season ceremony in which John F. Kennedy Jr. was a page, Caroline a flower girl, and Jackie among the almost 900 guests...
When I last heard of Long Gone Niles he was singing in the now defunct Insomniac in Hernosa Beach. At Newport Long Gone evoked memories of early, classic rock and roll with "Shake it, Baby, Shake...