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...remote, potentially private area, but instead he chose the vacationer-clogged coast of New England. When the Southern Breeze anchored off Newport on the first night, reporters were swarming. "Are you married? Do you plan to get married?" Sinatra and Mia said nothing. At Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard, the same questions got the same silence. On Sinatra sailed, pursued by jokes and quips like a moving cloud of midges. Mia does not smoke or drink, explained Jack E. Leonard in Las Vegas, Nev., "she's still teething." A columnist recalled that Frankie had said...
...favorite unopened authors is Toynbee. Rule No. 2 is that you don't have to finish anything. Indeed, half the charm of vacation bookmanship is in returning to the same unconquered magnum opus as if to Everest. A Madison Avenue executive back from Martha's Vineyard this month confessed that he had attacked Dante's Divine Comedy for the fifth straight year, only to bog down once again in the first canto. "But," he added bravely, "I'm getting sort of fond of Inferno." His secret hope, and that of many another frustrated bibliophile, is that...
...Martha's Vineyard, like Cape Cod, ranks high as a fashionable resort only because so many socialites summer there; most ordinary visitors come to relax, enjoy the beaches, the sailing, the salty air and the fishing, and they do not know, or care, that
...Edgartown Yacht Club is the most exclusive establishment on the island and is regarded as the summer retreat of the New York Yacht Club. In a normal season, the ferries that ply between the Vineyard and the mainland will carry some 500,000 passengers, 90,000 automobiles and 10,000 trucks; during a busy weekend as many as 200 private or commercial planes will land with passengers. But the "in" way to arrive on the island ?the only way for some?is to step down from your own Beechcraft, or to drop the hook from your boat in Edgartown...
Again by accident, a farmer digging in his vineyard unearthed the tops of several large fluted columns. Archaeologist Haralambos Makaronas, head of the Pella dig, believes the columns belong to the 5th century B.C. temple dedicated to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, of which Roman Historian Livy speaks...