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...Ah, Wilderness. All told, Davis has spent between $40 million and $50 million on Florida's future. And he has just begun. Besides his plans for Boca Raton, he has ideas for a $20 million shopping center south of Miami at Kendall. In January he bought Miami's Metropolitan Bank, and this week he signed a long-term lease on another big property near Delray Beach, where he plans to put up a $1,500,000 hotel. He is also busy developing the island of Eleuthera, 75 miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas. There, Davis...
This year, as usual, a million people will squeeze into the Folies to see the current revue, Ah! Qnelle Folie. It is the third most popular tourist attraction in France.* Spectators who return after many years note that the faces of the girls change, but the figures seem to stay the same. In Folies-Bergère (219 pp.; Button; $3.95), Paul Derval, director and titular head of the theater for almost 50 years, tells the naked truth in unadorned prose about Paris' most ancient music hall. It is the first time the story has been told at length...
Last week they went back to the same strand to develop the contact. Saint reported their progress by radio to the missionaries' wives at their base camp, Shell Mera. "Ah," he said with satisfaction, "here come some Aucas we haven't seen before. I'll call you back at 4 o'clock." But 4 o'clock brought silence...
...with bitten fingernails, Sherman and Rachel Adams slipped quietly away and went sightseeing at the Bronx Zoo. That night Sinclair Weeks, later to become Commerce Secretary, gallantly remarked on Rachel's fresh outdoor complexion. "We've been to the zoo to see all the animals," she explained. "Ah," said Weeks, "quite a change from the campaign." Replied Rachel: "Not so much...
...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...