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...also played a part in military matters. During World War I, he served as examiner of the Federal Trade Commission and as captain in the United States Army. Since 1928 he has been a member of the staff of outside lecturers of the United States Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, where he has lectured on the problems and methods of economic warfare...
Campaigner. Near Newport, Wash., Congressional Candidate Joe Albi buttonholed a friendly farmer for his vote. "Be glad to," said the oldtimer, "only I can't vote in Washington. This here's Idaho...
...Social Registerite himself, he knew more about Manhattan and Newport society than any other man, including his famed predecessor, Ward McAllister, who invented "The 400." Paul coined the phrase "Café Society" and made a fat living insulting it. But he differed from other society reporters in being able to keep alive the vivid fiction that a world of "real" socialites existed. The fiction will die with...
Digging Sold by the town of Newport, R.I. for $11,370.64 in back taxes plus a dollar was Evalyn Walsh McLean's villa, "By-the-Sea." James O'Donnell, operator of a chain of Washington drugstores, got it for less than one-tenth of its assessed valuation. Mrs. McLean has not used it for years. Mrs. Herbert Shipman's mansion across the street, built at a cost of some $1,000,000, went begging at the same sale. Taxes due: $12,366.33. Now it belongs to Newport...
...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...