Word: newports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew and his family were generously cordial and cooperative throughout the intensive reporting and research for the cover story, a certain gentlemanly reserve surfaced when we requested details tor a cross-section drawing of the boat that would make features of its design graphically clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think I have exactly what your editors want for this." Thereupon he handed her a folder that turned...
...summer colony's grande dame, still lives in her 50-room "cottage," Wake-hurst, surrounded by a fortune in art and a dozen servants. Bailey's Beach, where the memberships pass from father to son, is still "the most exclusive swimming hole in the U.S." In the Newport Casino, ladies still sip tea under parasols, while their husbands, decked out in white flannels and old school blazers, watch the tennis matches. And at nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression of wedding receptions and black...
...real lion of Newport society this summer, the most talked-about and sought-after visitor in town, the guest without whose presence no party can truly be called a success, is a normally gregarious fellow named Emil Mosbacher Jr. Unfortunately, Mr. Mosbacher regrets. His appointment book is full. He is dating a lady named Intrepid, and she is a most demanding mistress...
...knot wind is just air conditioning. Wintertime "frostbite" racing in tiny dinghies (6ft. to 14-ft. cockleshells with sails) is all the rage on the Great Lakes: "I was dunked three times last winter," boasts a gleeful Chicagoan. In last June's gale-tossed Annapolis-to-Newport race, 91 boats started and only 55 finished; 9 were dismasted, and one sank. "I know of men who have died during races at the age of 70," says Champion Star-Class Racer Bill Parks, 45, of Chicago. "It's the way they probably would have wanted...
...prompted them to maintain a social structure as exclusive in its way as Mrs. Astor's, to whose balls they were of course never invited. Manhattan from the East 60s to the East 80s was their principality; Elberon. N.J., a summer watering place, became known as the Jewish Newport. Familiengefühl (family feeling) was their religion: the Seligman social calendar registered 243 anniversaries a year...