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...society, wrapped in mothballs since Pearl Harbor, glittered at the first big postwar debut last week. In fashionable but fading Newport, the George Tysons of Boston and Newport presented their 18-year-old daughter, blond, blue-eyed Harriet Elizabeth, at a coming-out party costing an estimated...
Dinner-jacketed waiters scurried through the mapled grounds carrying fancy fowl, champagne, sizzling rare cuts from an outdoor .barbecue pit. A Newport fire company stood by. Also on hand if needed was a battery of floodlights, in case the overtaxed Tyson electrical system gave way. Outside the grilled enclosure of the Tyson home uninvited guests danced in the street to the Tyson music. The party ended soon after 6 a.m., with a dawn swim at Bailey's Beach and a gourmet's breakfast...
...biggest U.S. railroad tycoon since the Union Pacific's Edward Henry Harriman. Born in Texas, he worked in a Du Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's teetotalism, the town of Newport, England decided, is his own personal business. The Town Council rejected a proposal that all Newport citizens stick to orangeade and lemonade during the Marshal's visit there this month...
...preposterous blackout on news of the President's movements was lifted to a merely annoying brownout. Early this week the White House announced that President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes had left Newport News by ship for the Big Three meeting in Potsdam. The news that the President was on his way over the now-pacific Atlantic was cautiously given out two days after he had sailed. (It was announced in Washington that if any flying were to be done, the President and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes would fly in separate planes-so as not to hand...