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...height of Newport's "Golden Age," one of the resort's hostesses gave a dinner for 50 at which the center of the table was piled with sand. Each of the guests found a small, sterling silver pail and shovel at his place. At a given signal everyone dug frantically for thousands of dollars' worth of rubies, sapphires and diamonds buried in the sandpile...
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...
...Crimson, which will open a 24 game schedule against the Newport Officer Candidate School on December 6, will face the University of Pittsburgh, Washington University of St. Louis, and Nebraska, from December 27 to January...
...varsity schedule: December 6, Newport Officers; 10, Wesleyan; 13, Brown; 17, at Cornell; 20, at Navy; 27, at Pittsburgh; January 1, at Washington of St. Louis; 3, at Nebraska; 7, at Columbia; 9, Cornell; 12, Boston College; February 4, at Tufts; 7, Princeton; 11, Dartmouth; 14, Columbia; 18, Northeastern; 21, at Army; 23, at Princeton; 25, at Boston University; 28, at Penn; March 4, at Dartmouth; 7, Yale; 11, Penn; and 14, at Yale...
...better places than Worcester, he decided, to find out about architecture. When he was 20, he went to New York and applied for a job with the most famous firm of architects in the U.S., McKim, Mead & White. They had put up half the nouveau riche palaces in Newport, R.I., and had just built the Morgan Library in Manhattan, while some Bellevue Hospital buildings, the Racquet and Tennis Club and several Columbia University buildings were among the projects on their drawing boards. Harrison wanted the job so much that he said he would work for nothing. He was taken...