Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sceptre, Britain's challenger for the America's Cup, which was soundly thrashed by the U.S.'s Columbia off Newport last September, was sold at a cut-rate price (estimate: less than $42,000) to six Scottish friends of Designer David Boyd who are bent on proving eventually that there is nothing wrong with Sceptre that a little tinkering will not cure...
...sight, Gralla and his 650-man crew bypassed the Panama Canal, churned southward and around the Horn, keeping radio silence all the way.-Meanwhile, a five-ship task force-the carrier Tarawa, the destroyer Warrington, the destroyer escorts Hammerberg and Courtney and the oiler Neosho-slipped inconspicuously out of Newport, R.I. and steamed southward. From Norfolk, Va. steamed the destroyer Bearss and the oiler Salamonie. Together, the eight ships made up Task Force 88, under the overall command of the Navy's Rear Admiral Lloyd Montague Mustin, 47 (Annapolis '32), aboard the Tarawa...
...Beetle Boat Co. in East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport-to-Bermuda race, finished fifth, sixth and seventh in a huge field of 110 boats...
...York and Newport luxury. A gangling, tree-tall adolescent with a huge head topped by unruly red hair, Alec inevitably got the nickname "Pin," learned to play tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face...
Turning guest for a change, chirrupy Washington Hostess Perle Mesta showed up towing a "friend from Newport," Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt, at a convivial "victory"' party honoring the new Congress, was soon chuckling brow-to-brow with the first Democratic table-hopper to arrive for the jollity. Rhode Island's venerable (91) Senator Theodore F. Green...