Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity had finished its last pre-Newport scrimmage, and Shepard was relaxing in the I.A.B., watching the freshmen scrimmage. "The object of the rule," he said, "like all the others in the last couple of years, is to cut down the fouling...
Season openers are usually supposed to be breathers, but the varsity basketball team may well come up gasping for air after its opener Saturday at the I.A.B. with powerhouse Newport OCS team...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach, and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...
That was in turn-of-the-century days, when any millionaire looking for the shortest distance between the cash register and the social register usually made a beeline for such society resorts as Saratoga, Bar Harbor, Tuxedo Park, Southampton, Palm Beach and Newport. In those days, Society with a capital S was blissfully unaware that Taxes with a capital T would ever chase it away from its playgrounds. Nowadays, as one New-porter put it before he died in 1950: "The '400' has been marked down...
Before hardening of the monetary arteries set in, Newport reared its cottages like palaces, its hostesses like monarchs, and no higher gates remained to crash, outside of heaven's. Its most famous "cottage" was Cornelius Vanderbilt's "The Breakers," now unoccupied but open to sightseers, which cost $5,000,000 and boasted 70 rooms (33 of them for servants). Newport's sauciest social queen was Mrs. Stuyvesant ("Mamie") Fish, who relished the Texas Guinan approach to guests. "Howdy-do, howdy-do," she would jabber at new arrivals. "Make yourselves at home. And believe me, there...