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Return to Sender. In Newport News, Va., Postmaster Bob Cutler admitted that he was not eligible to play in the Virginia State Amateur Golf Championship: his official entry was postmarked too late...
...Henry C. Taylor's yawl Baruna, the 466-mile Newport-to-Annapolis race, over John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, last season's Bermuda race winner, by 14 min. 49 sec. (on corrected time...
With a hefty, two-handed swing, the wife of Senator Tom Connally last week smashed a magnum of California champagne against the bow of the biggest, fastest, most luxurious ship ever built in the U.S. Then, before 10,000 flag-waving spectators at Newport News, Va., the 51,500-ton, 990-ft. United States was "launched," i.e., she was towed from the flooded drydock in which she was built (she was too big for the ways of any U.S. shipyard) into the James River, and gently nudged by twelve tugs to her finishing pier...
...Training: 120 days OCS at Newport, Rhode Island. Then active duty for 3 years. (Note: Candidates who flunk course must serve out a 4-year enlistment...
...mansion. In 1901 another wing was added, and the owners of Apthorp sold out to the University. The old mansion then became a college dormitory under the name of Apthorp House. "It was for many years the dormitory for students coming from St. George's School at Newport, a school which furnished most of Harvard's pre-war athletes." This was very unfortunate for the St. George Boys. Because Apthrop's large windows were perfect targets, the inmates of Randolph Hall used to break them with snowballs in the winter and rocks in the spring. By the time Adams House...