Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palm Beach...
...Tyrrhenian Sea lay calm. Somewhere above the moonlit clouds purred Allied planes. To the east, two miles away, loomed Italy's dark shape. Landing craft churned towards Nettuno's eroded, frosted beach. Tense, eager men jumped into the icy rollers, waded ashore...
Orson Welles recuperated with Rita Hayworth Welles (see cut) at Miami Beach-he from jaundice, she from the flu. Restless Actor-Director Welles said he had definitely added politics to his interests, reminded the press that he was Chairman of the Action Committee of the American Free World Association...
...Miami Beach Lou Walter's Latin Quarter, and Giro's, a dazzling new nightspot, have become the places-one-must-be-seen-in. The exclusive, million-dollar Surf Club, closed last year, is open again, has 100 new members. The snooty, conservative Bath Club is having a terrific year, reminiscent of the plushest days...
...Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for small hotel rooms, $3 to $4 for meals. This hurt: many service wives could not afford to stay near their husbands. Even old Floridians, used to the routine annual outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed...