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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newport had taken no chances. The board of governors of the famed 75-year-old casino flatly refused to lease its grounds to the festival as it did in 1954; only an unseasonable dry spell that summer, they pointed out, prevented the tennis courts from being ruined by stomping feet, and what they called the "sanitary facilities" had been deplorably inadequate. Jazz-loving Socialite Louis L. Lorillard promptly paid $22,500 for Belcourt, the enormous, run-down pile of the late O.H.P. Belmont, and announced that this was where things would jump during the festival's three days...
...just contrary. Among other diversions, there is a dance, called Timorodee, which is performed by the young girls . . . consisting of motions and gestures beyond imagination wanton." With a wife and children waiting in England, Cook did not say in his famous journal whether he resisted the wanton spell of the Tahitian women, although he got close enough to note that "their breath [was] perfectly without taint...
...when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored cartoons of Washington and Rochambeau, titled SHINE VALIANT CHIEFS, and took the third story to spell out: FOR OUR ALLIES, HUZZA! HUZZA! HUZZA...
...considered hiding, Fleck soon found that his life will be very public for quite a spell. With his pretty blonde wife Lynn and four-year-old son Craig at his side, he was whisked off, in a new white Cadillac, through Davenport and his birthplace village of Bettendorf (pop. 5,000), as thousands more huzzahed. At home on East Street, he riffled through a 2-ft.-high stack of telegrams. Then, swamped by offers for endorsements, interviews and public appearances, he telephoned Fred Corcoran, professional business manager for professional athletes, became a Corcoran client. Later in the day the local...
...Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase cast her spell over thousands of Smith girls by her uninhibited showmanship, once astounded her doctor by babbling off the dates of all the Roman Emperors while coming out of the ether after a tonsillectomy. Mistress of the masterly digression, she could wander from a description of Isaiah as "the Shelley of the Bible...