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Next day he received a selected knot of Rhode Island politicians aboard the yacht, went ashore to visit the Naval War College at Newport. Then, after waiting out a Northeaster, the Williamsburg headed seaward again...
...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...
...latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
Jock McLean, playful son of famed, diamond-shingled Evalyn, enlivened formal affairs in starchy Newport with his dinner jacket, a solid scarlet even to the buttons...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...