Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was nothing funny about it, according to Lampoon treasurer John Geetlet, of Newport, R.I., who retrieved the magazine's mascot, a 20-pound copper ibis, from the Russian Embassy in Manhattan this morning...
...grants and their chosen schools are: Robert J. Blattner of Lowell and Milwaukee, Wis., St. John's College, Cambridge University; Alvan L. Brody of Dunster and Boston, University of Copenhagen; James C. Chace of Lowell and Fall River, University of Paris; and John Goelet of Lowell and Newport, R.I., School of Oriental Studies, American University at Cairo...
...high, wide and handsomely as 29-year-old Tennis Star Victor Seixas (No. 2 m U.S. rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command) round Vic out as a six-continent man. (There has never been...
Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...
...Atomic Age. When will such an atomic engine be ready? Last week the Newport News shipyard, which is working on the supercarrier Forrestal, gave a possible hint. It took ads asking for men "interested in a career in atomic energy." It looked as if the shipbuilding company hopes to land a contract for another carrier of the Forrestal class, to be powered by an atomic engine. Price evidently thinks the atomic age of power is close. This week he announced that Westinghouse will spend $2,000,000 to build, on an abandoned golf course five miles northeast of Pittsburgh...