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After less than a year's ownership and rare visits to it, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen's parents sold the fabulous marble villa in Newport that mother had said she was buying daughter for a birthday present. Famed as "the Tessie Oelrichs mansion," it cost some $2,500,000 to build in 1902. The Niesens bought it for $21,000, sold...
...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...
...Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...
Ordinarily, at this time of year, top flight U.S. tennists would be warming up for the Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...well as the University of Maryland, Lillie began his research in the desire to illuminate evidence of pre-revolutionary estates comparable with those of the South. The work has since branched into historical research of Cambridge for a period of two hundred years and has extended to Boston, Newport, R. I., and Portsmouth...