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...Newport-New England. Friday: War, Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, the Staple Singers, and Billy Paul. Saturday: Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Stevie Wonder. At Fenway Park, July 27 and 28. Tickets...
...Newport-New England. Now the Newport Jazz Festival used to be held at Newport. But three-four years ago, after George Wein started inporting people like Led Zeppelin to punch up the gate, they had a riot. Nice one, too. About 7,000 stone broke hippies came rolling off the hill overlooking the festival site and rolled clean through the one chain link fence separating themselves from wall to wall music. At which point they clashed with the paying customers and much mangling of flesh ensued. So now they hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway...
Kalmbach's law firm, which now has 26 lawyers and penthouse offices in Los Angeles as well as an office at Newport Beach, is famous for its ability to get quick, and often favorable, rulings from Government agencies. "I've been to meetings with Kalmbach attorneys in which an IRS agent would be there to explain things," marvels one client. For Client Richard Nixon, Kalmbach was a personal tax consultant, and he arranged the still mysterious, highly favorable deal by which the President acquired his San Clemente estate...
Before he left college, Kalmbach married a pretty U.S.C. Rose Bowl princess, and he and his wife Barbara now have two sons, Kurt, 23, and Kenneth, 19, and a daughter, Lauren, 21. The Kalmbachs live in a $100,000 house on a bluff overlooking upper Newport Bay, where their neighbors and friends include the President's brother Donald and Actor John Wayne. Kalmbach's sport is golf...
Long Island, decided the moviemakers, has lost its old West Eggian elegance, so they transplanted The Great Gatsby to the more richly idle colony of Newport, R.I. Otherwise, no emerald-cut stone was left unturned to ensure authenticity in re-creating Gatsby's lavish parties. The set was Rosecliff, a villa designed in 1902 by Architect Stanford White. The Packards and Mercers and Rolls-Royces lining the driveway were lovingly polished antiques. The gowns were late 1920s originals, and the million-dollar armature of jewelry was certified Cartier. It was only fitting, therefore, that among the 500 extras chosen...