Word: avalon
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...show, Ziegfeld offered his Midnight Frolic, the most glamorous memory in Manhattan nightclub history. There John J. Pershing did some of his victory dancing and the jazz age got under its fanciest headway to the strains of the late Art Hickman's great band from California playing Avalon, Japanese Sandman and the Tishomingo Blues. There, after midnight, lemonades brought appalling Prohibition prices, the Follies chorus and principals entertained, and the most notable playboys of the postwar period started on their hair-losing ways...
...purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...Catalina's changes, Maritime Service trainees lamented one great paradox: in the ballroom of the St. Catherine the hot band of Maritime Service Lieut. (j.g.) Phil Harris played music worthy of the island's hottest days, while in all of Avalon were only 14 single girls old enough for dates...
...Jones gave the British a break last week on the forced liquidation of British-owned U.S. companies to pay for war supplies. Satisfied that in today's market British-American Tobacco Co. might have trouble getting $40,000.000 for their Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. subsidiary (Wings, Kool, Raleigh, Avalon), he lent them the money, left them a chance to salvage their investment, when the loan is paid off in ten years...
James Bert McCandless, Avalon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Avalon High School...