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...Westport, Conn...
...ship's captain may dislike vessel, ocean and passengers was comically demonstrated by Cinemactor Walter Connolly in The Captain Hates the Sea. Last week a real captain of a real ship was heard on the subject. Near Westport, Wash., a bottled note cast overboard in mid-Pacific last July was washed ashore. It was written by Captain W. J. Fowler, then first officer of Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co.'s Golden Horn which had just been through 18 days of rough weather...
...repercussions of Austria's Nazification last week continued to widen through the world. Opportunistic Hollywood threw its hat into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...
...that honor promptly came last week from Westport, Conn., an arty village lying on the sluggish River Saugatuck where it empties into Long Island sound. There Author Hendrik van Loon's Connecticut Society of Friends of Music announced plans for an initial summer season of six concerts scheduled for this summer. While this six-performance schedule would still leave Westport trailing in competition with such established U. S. summer festivals as the Berkshire, Hollywood Bowl, St. Louis Municipal Opera, and Manhattan Lewisohn Stadium, such Westporters as van Loon, Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett hope for glamorous future expansion...
...Westport resident is Patrick A. Powers, an enterprising Irishman, onetime backer of Walt Disney, organizer of Universal Film Co., later of Film Booking Office of America (forerunner of RKO) who sold out his Hollywood interests several years ago, purchased a 200-acre estate in Westport, where he built the Longshore Country Club. Sociable, civic-minded Powers spends his winters in a marble-floored palace at Spuyten Duyvil on the Hudson River, wears green suits and still sports an Irish accent. Last week he promised Westporters a great gift: he would build a $100,000 "marine stadium" at Westport, lease...