Rogers High School - Binnacle Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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Thomas Paty kevv rch vvrnner ofthe lrrsh Svv eepstakes Henry Maxvv ell last week avs arded the trtle Mr Amerrcan Crtrzen of l9Jl Horace Neaton top heavy favorrte for the near future Lvypt Engrand arr races Speakrng of arrplanes tnat huge oval solrd rs not a grgantrc my thrcal brrd s evg nor a dr lodged mountarn nor even some n rv crty destroyrng bomb but a novel passenger arrlrner of vlass thrs rs certarnly the glass ave vvrth collapsrble concealable rubber vvrng tne vvhole contraptron prloted by Orvrlle Qurtrs vvrtn Roberta Brovvn as hostess Arthur Grlman creator of the classrc comrc strrp Alexander the Armadrllo vvho has extended hrs actrvrtres to Alexander the Armadrllo Canned Sprnach These Rogers graduates they crop up even rn the advertrsements For example he lady vvrtn her prcture on the flour bag rs none other than Vrrgrnra Robbrns author of the housevvrfe s Brble Darnty Dr hes for Drscernrng Damsels vvhrle on the back cover of the magazrne appears none other than oan hletcher new Ducrress of San Francrsco vvho endorses tooth paste for svveet charrty s sake Pageants Page of Thrrlls of the Vt eek go s to ohn Prescott Snavv tor hrs brave and darrnv vrctory over srx robbers rn hrs Sherlock Holmes lrke role a detectrve rn solvrng the mystery of vvho stole the Sl 000 000 platrnum dramond necklace of Mrs X lvvas nrght and darkness crept over all vvhen suddenly rnto therr rloo on the last brt of uncrvrlrzatron amestovvn R I crept a ter rrfyrnv pre hrstorrc monster That was the lot of these audacrous explorers and thrs rs the prcture taken at rhe trme of the melodramatrc srtuatron whrch as the head of the expedrtron oseph Anthony puts rt vvas just another rncrdent rn our crusade to brrnv lrght to thes drsmal regrons A companyrng the modest lVlr Anthony on the expedrtron are marnly Anthony Caputr astronomrst Paul Mangan anthropologrs and Wrllram Feltham meteorologrst Not so blood curdlrng perhap but equally rmportant certarnly rs the achrevement of Evelyn Ledoux and Ernestrne LeBeouf rn rnventrnv a typevvrrter whrch easrly and beautrfully prrnts scrrpt vvrrtrng thus makrnv obsolete and unnecessary all eccentrrc and rllegrble handwrrtrnv Says Paul Leary head of Tammany Hall Nlext to the vvar I consrder thrs the most rmportant development rn thrs year s hrstory Comments Albert Trurtt radro announcer Drtto Fashron Forecasts a sp cral prcture page thrs vveek for the femrnrne element of our readers who rnsrst upon adornrng themselves vvrth feathers and callrng rt beauty l'rances Cross Parrs desrgner presents thrs d lrvhtful creatron rn green vvool and orange chrffon to be topped by a corflure vvhrch swrrls upvvard rn front curls on top then rs parnted over wrth any color lacquer desrred the headdress berng an orrgrnal by Edward lVlorrrson Remember hrs beautrful shrny vvavy harr rn hrgh school? ust by may of contrast the gentleman vvrth the pearls and dramonds vvho rs drrvrng a IQ43 model T rs Harry Amey lndran potentate v ho made hrs fortune rn Indra and novv rules over 95 000 000 farthful subjects Of course lVlarylrn 'Vlorrrssey popular columnrst vvould say I don t knovv But you knovv Nlarrlyn she hasnt completely recovered from that last surt for rbel Pageant s Art Sectron thrs vveek rs vv holly devoted to the eccentrrc vvork of Harold Babbrt modernrstrc parnter Some people say rt s art some p ople call rt bad cookrng For example who vvould ever guess that those queer blocks and pyramrds vs ould rrnravel rnto a portrart of Thomas Buckles vvuard mavrcran escaprng from a coffin or trat the rarnbovv rn the corner vvas a surrealrst rnterpretatron of Shrrley Innes mrnd reader rn the process of psychoanalyLatron3 Mr Babbrtt rs famed for hrs remarkable murals coverrnv the vvalls of the famous Bar XYZ dude ranch ovvned by Helen Allen Rumor has rt also that thrs same artrst vvrll desrgn the stavrng for the much publrcrzed play Save the Preces by Alford Peckham and Roger OSullrvan collaborators on many other smash hrts That brrngs to mrnd th rntroductron of the popular modern musrc course recently rnstrtuted at Tuskegee Lnrversrty and taught by such exptrts as 'Vlerle Barley Ellen Campbell Vlary Parker Gladys Johnson Catherrne Waller and Serena Yates Pageant Prctures the Crrcus' Last Aprrl heralded by the gleeful shouts of Y 'I I 1 v v , ., .. , . . .. -- , . - - ,, , . .. . . . c , . , -A Q '- 4- ' N D V f ' - a I O . .... , 1 . , A D . - v V -9 , : 3 ., . 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organrzatron the Boy Scouts of Amerrca More current celebrrtres Cyrrl Allen banker and BUBDCICI' Raymond Rrpa emrnent phrlosopher and presrdent of the Arnerrcan Federatron for the Promotron of Peace that darmg avratrrx Ena Ro s wrth trophres captured on a recent huntrng trrp rn Nl rrs Mrs Beryl Crane lead r of the select sophrstr cated 400 socral set and Prank Andrews matnematrcran who at last has conquered the supposedly rnsoluble problem of trrsectrng an angle wrth strarght edg and compass on y' Pageant Presents a Page of People from Newport a Representatrve U S Crty here on the front page of thrs sectron exposed to the crrtrcrzrng glances of mrllrons of hostrle eyes smrle the faces of Hrs Honor H Russell Barker Mayor of Newport Barbara Braman Chref of Polrce and Rrta Au trn l'1re Ctrref lllbert Angel owner of the local crnemansron whrch drsplays rn brrght lrghts rts rewrval of that old classrc of the black and whrte two drmensronal day Mr Deeds Goes to lown typrcal Newporters Bertha Brrdge owner of Bertha s Lrttle Tea Shoppe George Lees drctator of the Loyal Local Brotherhood of Amalgamated Sky lane Cleaners Morton Kosch and George Ryan leadrng local lawyers and for a sup r clrmax Norman Chase farmer from Portsmouth one of the suburbs of Newport upon whos farm gold was dr cowered rn the Portsmouth Gold Rush of 1953 No rt cant be yet rt rs' Rogers Hrgh School but a new drfferent and amazrngly modernrstrc 300 story glass sky tower staffed by such teachers as Ellen Blrven lrbrarran rn the Norman Lrbrary lVlarron Barker Englrsh teacher Arnold Anderson head of the Scrence Department Marte lewrs conductor of the Rogers Orchestra and Lulu Mar Harvey drrector of dramatrcs rn the huge new audrtorrum wrth real green velvet curtarns Pageant goes to the V-Var Front Well forty years ago the patrrots of the U S decrded to frght rn France That was bad yery bad But now now theyre frghtrng rn Srberra to make the Srberrans safe for democracy and to crrcumvent the rabrdly caprtalrstrc Russran government ln charg of op ratrons rn Srberra r General Mrchael Bunker alded and abetted by such brrllrant stratevrsts a Bordon Caswell Lester Frredman Rrchard flrrghtrng Drckl Fullerton and Frank Wrestler Sarrrs To help carry on the war rs a valrant corps of nurses rncludrnv Blanche Andrews Isabel Brown Wrnrfred Maxwell Lorrarne Chartrer and Alrce lreeney here prctured embarkrng for the front lrne Here rn Amerrca the dreary problem rests on the shoulders of srx weary overcome by responsrbrlrty men the Supreme War Councrl composed of Gaspero Xmorouso ohn Booth Wrllram Gray Frank Smrth Kenn th Trout and Ralph Mrrman Pageant Revr ws the Entertarnment Xvorld At hom all rs peace and quret a theatrrcal season has just closed w hrch rncluded that smash hrt of hrts Ghosts of 57 starrrng the soprano wrth the vorce of gold Alrce Bulha r cent recrurt from the opera and that old trme slapstrck comedran Bob Ashton A hrgh lrght of thrs musrcal comedy was the danclng of Anna Vasrlrou ballerrna or the Amerrcan Ballet corps On the rarnbow creen technrcolor the old fashroned term w rs the prcture Romance rn a Rocket starrrng Beverley Vvrllramson and that s nsatronal new drscowery Franchot lVlars Frank Martrn rn the good old trmes who recalls to us oldsters Robert Taylor of many years ago The candrd camera shot rs of Martha Helgesen Glamorous exotrc star and her publrcrty agent Harold Hoffman ln the realm of musrc never before hue so mrny stars slront nor shone so brrllrantly The orrgrnal of thrs full page portrart rs none other than Barbara Ly nch woman trombonrst who put the trombone on the map On th opposrte page frddler Esau lnrredman who set the world afrre by playrng hrs xrolrn contrnually for three long days an all trme record Perhaps we wand r from true musrc but that quter contortronrst rn the center of the page rs only Lours Feldman famed orchestra leader and rmentor of scrntrllatron he new ya77 compared to whrch sn H10 of twenty Nlnilg 120 l11Cl 1ll0Uf 1 mUCl1 fltylltm 19 1 Bach fugue Pageant s Vllorld of Scrence and Amusements Harry X ay ro dryer for lost treasure rn the Yucatan coast expedrtron financed In nabob Frederrck Gly nn of the teel mrlls Norma lxane antrque collector drrxes one of the last exrstrng rutomobrles rn the L S 1 - . , 1 v ' r Y . 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some of the chrldren and all of therr parents there arrrved rn lNew X ork Crty the Brnglrng Brothers Rarnum and Rally Crrcus Hayrnv played to capacrty audrences tor two months the crrcus one of those oddrtres left oxer from the twentres and thrrtres now prepares to mowe to the provrnces Here are presented the only candrd photographs of lrfe rn the crrcus lhe Hanover urntet performs therr unequaled never to be surpassed dare dexrl feat of equrlrbrruml bo announces rrng master Srdney Rosenthal on thrs full paged prcture Srxty feet abose the earth rnxrsrble to the spectators below stretches a narrow wrre seated on brcycles upon thrs wrre are the frrst two Hanovers real names George Lahoud and ack 'Nlazeau supportrnv on therr shoulders a pole w hrch supports a charr whrch seats Hrnoyer III Charles Hazard On hrs shoulders stands Robert Wood a stepprng ston for Hanoyer IV Carl l..oLrto on whose shoulders stands the peak the prnnacle the top-Clementrne l..allr' l-lappy landrng Clem' Many feet below the faces of the audrence afford a verrtable catalogue of emotrons So braye a man as Wrllram Alofsrn Olymprc sprrnter wrnner rn l952 drsplays an expressron of Ive just seen a ghost even that cynrc mrsogynrst Alvrn Hersh author of such books as My Fellowmen Boslr' rndrcates by hrs drsheveled harr that he rs not unmoved whrle Constantrne Hologgrtas wrestles wrth hrs fear rnstead of hrs tradrtronal enemy Edwrn Edwards Mary Buchanan Chrrstrne Coggeshall and Beverley Clarke three farmers from way down East get a brg thrrll from the brg crty Judgrng from therr terrrhed expressrons Accompanred by a loud crash from Dorothy Hattub s brass band darly at two performances flres through the arr that darrng young man on the Hyrng trapeze Danrel Cullrnane r to the great delrght and admrratron of that representatron from the Follres cast Gladys Brooks Marcelle Spooner Severrna Whrte Strll rn the background of the prcture but drmly vrsrble are the great equestrran trro Penelope Clarke rrdrng a horse whrle standrng on her head Margaret Ebbrtt standrng on one toe and ean Cramer on one hand A lrterary tea one of the seven wonders of the world scorned and Jeered at by cynrcs eagerly sought and srghed for by those brtten by the celebrrty bug Here n these three prctures rs the greatest show on earth a gath rrng brrghtened by more brrllrant stars than your hve year old brothers drawrng of the sky presrded over by that gleamrng Vrllage rs gone w rth the teprd thrrtres gone are th Howrng tres and tresses Our new age rn lrterature rs represented by such poets as Marlon Brownell such novel sts as udrth Davrdson Now everyone wrrtes hrs autobrography from the sophrstrcated socrety woman Lucy Cutts owner of thrs years Kentucky Derby Vlfrnner to Anna Errcson amateur gardener wrnner of the prrze for the year s best rose Thrs rs a photographers holrday whrch garned a rarse for many a reporter such as Ruth Wernquest and Bessre Rowland l-lrdden behrnd a palm tree rs archeologrst Emrly Corey who rs explarnrng to pharmacrst Roland Parent her amazem nt ur on drscoverrnv that her Egyptran gurde through Krng Tut etc s tomb was none other than her old classmate Walter Lyon Rrch man poor man beggarman thref remember the rhyme3 Here they are drrnkrng tea rn a lrne the rrch man Wrllram lNrmmo who cornered Wall Street the poor man Paul Wayson poor man he only hr S310 000 000 the beggarman rn the femrnrne gender Margaret MCC-urrk at least that s her role rn her latest play and the thref Dorothy Toprgran who eyery eyenrng has to st al away from her autograph hounds after srngrng torch songs to the smart set rn Norma Kelly s El Alhambra Club where hundred dance to the streamlrned sophrstrcated musrc of Davrd Nemtzow featurrng Cecrle Massey at the prano Aaron Nlemtzow at the clarrnet To go to the other end of the socral yrrdstrck prctures of the county farr The county farr3 Yes the one and only rncomprrable county farr the Portsmouth County Farr l-lerewrth the parkrng grounds jammed wrth scores of 3 passenger model F planes rn all states of decomposrtron The whole famrly cames to thrs farr eren rf unror has to rrde on the wrng A Burt Kelly x ho carrred off the laurels for the best squash puts rt By crac y trrnt more than once a sc rr we folks get a real chance to step out' For embrordery prarse to Esther Ltmr for pres laudatron for Alrce Anderson for . 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