Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY (CBS, 10-1 p m ).-Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, the George Shearing Quintet felonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson and others in performances filmed at a pas Newport Jazz Festival...
...lying in a hospital bed recovering from appendicitis when it occurred to me I didn't have the foggiest notion what college was all about," recalls Robert Watkins, a graduate of St. George's prep school in Newport, R.I. "I wasn't ready." Some 4,000 miles away in Lugano, southernmost city in Switzerland, Mrs. Mary Crist Fleming, 54, was pondering a related idea. "Every bit of extra maturity and training a high school graduate can get before entering college is going to help," she said. "They need a breather, a chance to get excited again about...
Signs of Spring. The U.S. capital of lacrosse is Baltimore, which has been in love with the sport since 1878, when a track-and-field team returned from Newport, R.I., with news of a "most activating and exciting new game." To a Baltimorean, the first signs of spring are the dents made in auto fenders by kids practicing passes. Lacrosse is a major sport at most of the city's public and private high schools; and one or another of three Maryland colleges (Johns Hopkins, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the University of Maryland) has won the national championship...
Also: Janet F. Lockard '68, of Moors Hall and Princeton, N.J., secretary; Conway A. Downing Jr. '62, of Wigglos-worth Hall and Newport News, Va., treasurer; and Steven M. Compertz '67, of Leverett House and Hamden, Conn., publicity director...
...think about marriage. With respectful propriety, Lloyd twice asked Ann's father for her hand, twice was stalled. "The first time he deferred the matter to an indefinite later date. The second time, he was a little more adamant," remembers Lloyd. So Ann eloped. They were married in Newport, R.I., where Lloyd was attending the Navy's officers training school and living on seaman...