Word: newports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hosted a dinner honoring the Justices of the Supreme. Court. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who recently suffered a heart ailment, was absent, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, down with a virus, sent his regrets. Added upsets: at dinner, Mrs. Howard Tinney, a Newport, R.I. friend of the Eisenhowers, left the table with a toothache; Mrs. Howard Simpson, wife of the president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, became ill, was later described as having "rapid action of the heart''; Mrs. Earl Warren tripped on the White House front steps, quipped: "It's obvious I need my husband...
...Lewis Gruber, 63, president "since 1956 of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent, Newport), fourth largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first nine months' sales: $353 million), moved up to the vacant post of board chairman, but will continue as chief executive officer. Taking his place as president, and most probable successor to head Lorillard when Gruber retires in two years: Harold Francis Temple, 55, vice president and director of sales, who began as a salesman with Lorillard 30 years...
...from a socialite Republican family (the late Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III), got a socialite's education, was inquiring photographer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...
...Kenilworth, Ill. 52 Ghent, Edward '59 C 6.2 198 Little Rock, Ark. 56 Gaed, Anton '61 C 6.4 212 Charlotte, N. C. 59 Pyle, Michael '61 C 6.3 217 Winnetka, Ill. 60 West, William '59 G 6.2 205 Shaker Hgts., Ohio 61 Davenport, Raleigh '60 G 5.9 182 Newport News, Va. 62 Balme, Benjamin '61 G 6.2 199 Portland, Ore. 64 Moss, Sanford '61 G 5.10 180 Morton, Pa. 65 Mallano, Robert '60 G 6.0 206 Los Angeles, Calif. 66 Lynch, Paul '59 G 6.2 210 Brookline, Mass. 67 Wellemeyer, John '59 G 5.11 182 Skillman, N. J. 68 Porvaznik...
...projects such as the Arkansas River development program. But Moderate Hays, who is also president of the 9,000,000-member Southern Baptist Convention, attempted in addition to smooth the inevitable course of integration; in mid-1957 he brought President Eisenhower and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus together at Newport, R.I. in an attempt to forestall the Little Rock crisis. Among Little Rock white supremacists, Brooks Hays, 60, has been unpopular ever since. Last week they kicked him out of Congress with a write-in campaign covertly sponsored by Orval Faubus...