Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unromantic Law. In Newport, England, defending a store accused of price-gouging, Lawyer B. J. Hayes failed to avert the court's ?7 ($19.60) fine despite his plea: "The boy clerk and girl clerk . . . did not have their minds on their work. They were married a month later...
...three different trotters win the Hambletonian's scheduled three heats, the classic's winner is decided by a run-off heat held for them only). First-heat winner: a 17-10-1 shot, Milky Way Stable's Morse Hanover. The 8-5 favorite, Newport Stock Farm's Newport Star, took only show money...
...Wimbledon Champion Victor Seixas lost the Newport invitation men's singles, after wrenching his knee in the third set, to Tony Trabert, 5-7, 0-6, 6-4, 8-6, 6-3. But he was the recipient of a memorable limerick from the London Observer, which had been brooding over pronunciation of his name...
While Mrs. Perle Mesta, ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, was off on her guided tour of the Soviet Union, some highly discriminating thieves broke into her Newport, R.I. villa, next door to the mansion of Railroad Financier Robert R. Young. The booty: three egg cups, several ash trays and a small selection of cups & saucers...
...carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble with Assistant Navy Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the papers ran a sloppy, muckraking series that implied widespread homosexuality at the naval base in Newport, F.D.R. blasted the papers. Three years later, when Rathom died, Brown moved up from Washington and became managing editor...