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...tutored Bob at home until he was ten. Then she put him in the first grade at public school. She had taught him so well that by afternoon he had been promoted to fifth grade. He spent his last school year at fashionable St. George's School in Newport. At Harvard he turned into a joiner and a doer...
...delegation, which abstained from voting (but not from lobbying and talking) on the issue, promised to abstain in a realer sense when the commission decides between U.S. sites. The British want Boston (Irish population 40%), which gives it a lead over Philadelphia, Flushing Meadows, Newport, St. Louis and San Francisco. The UNO will insist that it be given an enclave for the site; this would mean that part of the selected city would no longer be part...
...From Newport, Ark., a farmer wrote a letter to the nonexistent "Atomic Bomb Co." of Oak Ridge, Tenn.: "I have some stumps in my field that I should like to blow out. Have you got any atomic bombs the right size for the job? If you have let me know by return mail, and let me know how much they cost. I think I should like them better than dynamite...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, Indian summering at Newport, missed some excitement in her Fifth Avenue Manhattan mansion. A fire started in a bedroom wall plug, ran along a baseboard, up the draperies of a dressing table, ruined a rug and a few fine feathers. Cornelius Jr. sounded the alarm...
Lieut. Commander Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who topped off his five years in service with combat duty off Okinawa and an assignment to the Naval War College at Newport, changed his mind about making the Navy a career and got his discharge. He announced the purchase of a country house in Republican-voting Woodbury, L.I., not far from the Oyster Bay stamping ground of the other (Theodore) Roosevelts...