Word: beach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami Beach (Fla.) Tribune's crusading Reporter Shannon Cormack happened to let an error of fact into a story he wrote last February about Circuit Judge Jefferson B. Browne, who was trying a Florida State Senator on gambling charges. Cited for contempt, fined $50 and sentenced to one day in jail, Newshawk Cormack appealed. Last week, all appeals having failed, Cormack served his one-day sentence...
...daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular Minister Biddle has been voted by tailors one of the "world's ten best-dressed men." He is well-liked by his neighbors in Philadelphia, Manhattan, Newport, Palm Beach and Paris, is expert in tennis, polo, golf, fencing, boxing. His business life has been less happy...
Convicted. Noel Charles Scaffa, 46, best-known U. S. private detective (specialty : jewel retrieving); of perjury in testifying before a Federal Grand Jury concerning his part in returning $185,000 worth of jewels stolen in Miami Beach from Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell (TIME, June 10); in Manhattan. Maximum possible sentence: 15 years in prison, $6,000 fine...
...singly but in bunches. Familiar to rotogravure readers are the Rawls sisters-Katherine (18), Evelyn (16), Dorothy (15), Peggy (10). Evelyn last week finished third in the free-style mile, fourth in the medley. Dorothy was fourth in the 220-yd. breast stroke. Peggy stayed at home. At Manhattan Beach last week, four more families of swimmers - the Hopkins twins of Miami Beach, the Gormans of Homestead, the Rompas of Manhattan and the Hoergers of Miami Beach - submerged into celebrity. The last two families at least seemed particularly likely to account for themselves creditably in the future. Erna...
...have been a profound disappointment to her mother, who has reared her girls as if they were guppies. As soon as her children were three months old, she tossed them into the water. All three could swim before they could walk. The backyard of the Hoerger home at Miami Beach is a swimming pool. The front yard is the Atlantic Ocean. When not swimming at home, Hoergers swim in more de luxe surroundings, the famed Miami Biltmore pool, where Mrs. Hoerger is swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger, went to Miami Beach to be general super intendent for Carl Fisher...