Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meanwhile, Boggs and Dixie had driven Flory's pickup truck, with a .22-cal. revolver in the glove compartment, to Oklahoma where they abandoned it, kept the gun and began hitchhiking. They were picked up by two Newport, N.H., men, Robert Willis, 23, and Halvor Johnson, 28 who were driving in Johnson's black Simca to Los Angeles to look for work...
...dream: Huntington Hartford, Mrs. Eric Javits, Wendy Vanderbilt, Melinda Moon, Freddie Guest (Winston's son) and his wife Stephanie (Joan Bennett's daughter), Maria Cooper (Gary's daughter), Liza Minnelli (Judy's daughter), Alexandra Cushing and Christina Paolozzi, plus a constellation of Southampton and Newport debs, some of whom flew in for the occasion. But all eyes were on Edie and Andy...
...snippy about it. "If Mr. Sinatra is going to marry anyone, he ought to marry me," she said. In the circumstances, Sinatra might reasonably have opted for some remote, potentially private area, but instead he chose the vacationer-clogged coast of New England. When the Southern Breeze anchored off Newport on the first night, reporters were swarming. "Are you married? Do you plan to get married?" Sinatra and Mia said nothing. At Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard, the same questions got the same silence. On Sinatra sailed, pursued by jokes and quips like a moving cloud of midges...
...hustings. His first target was the jazz fans (rock 'n' rollers are clearly beyond his or anyone else's ken), and his schedule includes appearances at Forest Hills, Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit. His choice for first drop was that citadel of jazz purists, the Newport Jazz Festival. The assault was conducted in the new manner to which Sinatra has become accustomed...
...Cape Codder, a weekly newspaper published in Orleans, editorialized Thursday that "a clear and present danger" exists on the Cape after recent riots at Newport, Hampton Beach and Laconia. "Given these circumstances," the paper argued, "it seems clear that Cape Cod towns have the right to take action to defend themselves, if not the duty...