Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sixty-six thousand people attended the Newport Folk Festival last weekend...
...cost of hearing it. The Sunday morning religious concert, the best of the festival, was free to the public. Dorothy Love, singing "Come into My House" backed by her red-robed Gospel Harmonettes, gave one of the most beautiful and moving performances I have ever heard at Newport...
...second and sixth overall. Last March, a Cal-40 won overall honors in the month-long Southern Ocean Racing Conference series in Florida and Bahama waters. Last month IBM President T. Vincent Learson brought in his Cal-40 Thunderbird ahead of 166 other boats* overall in the storm-tossed Newport-to-Bermuda race-with five other...
...blue-water yachtsman is completely happy unless he can find something to grouse about. "She's noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...
...follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also introduced mythological subject matter into naturalistic settings. La Farge, for instance, thought nothing of depicting The Halt of the Wise Men in 1878 with a recognizable Newport, R.I., background...