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Gertrude Niesen's $2,000,000 marble palace in Newport (bought for the torch-singer by Mama Niesen for $20,000) was visited by a man from the water department when the meter had run up a $600 bill. He walked in on a 50-room skating rink, on floors buried under half a foot of ice, to see the grand staircase a magnificent frozen waterfall. The pipes had frozen and burst...
Besides his lectures on International Economic Relations at the University, Professor de Haas annually gives three or four lectures at the Naval War School in Newport. His appointment as Chairman of the Netherlands Post-war Planning Committee will in no way affect his position at the University, Professor de Haas has revealed...
...left his job as teacher. On the desk of the St. Paul's business manager he dropped a sheaf of unpaid bills, all his money and stocks to meet them. Nine-tenths of the bills were for milk sent to neighboring poor people. He went off to Newport News, crammed 25 hours of air training into three days, went to France...
...their great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...
Born. To Christine Cromwell White and Frederick White: a daughter; in Newport, R.I. Grandfather: 45-year-old James H. R. Cromwell, estranged husband of Doris Duke Cromwell...