Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yoshiko Tanigawa, 22, a Nisei girl who spent 20 months at the Tule Lake detention camp during the war, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, went on duty at the Long Beach, Calif. Naval Hospital. She is the U.S Navy's only Japanese-American officer...
Blonde Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that...
...Dirt in the Blue Grass. From Daytona Beach one gallant telegraphed: "Do nothing till you hear from me. Might go as high as 12 or 13Gs." Then a man from Lexington, Ky. burned up the long distance wires, begging Dorothy to hold off until he could get up to Valley Stream. He telegraphed a $100 down payment. Dorothy described him as a horse breeder named Arthur Howard, said he was a boyish 42 and almost six feet tall. "He's got oodles of do-re-mi,'' she added softly...
Harvard Club of Miami: Floyd M. Sathre '26, 1456 Marseille Drive, Miami Beach...
...Fresno, Calif., two of the world's swiftest sprinters - Southern California's Mel Patton and U.C.L.A.'s Lloyd La Beach - matched strides. Despite a desperate try, La Beach just failed to catch Patton at the tape. When the time was announced, the crowd gasped. It was a new world's record for 100 yards...