Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeding into the Post the biggest of the nation's bylines, Lorimer made it the biggest nickel's worth on the market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...
Solomon Plus. In Daytona Beach, Fla., Judge J. C. Beard decided that two claimants had equal rights to a bicycle, had it sawed in half...
Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach...
...yard high hurdles--won by W. Flint (H); 2, Finley (Y); 3, Cook (Y). Time 14 8/10 sec. 100-yard dash--won by Jonkins (Y); 2, D. Cavicke (H); 3, Beach (Y). Time--10 2/10 sec. One-mile run-won by F. Gurley (H); 2, Gardner (Y); 3, Baldwon (Y). Time--4 min., 32 sec. 440-yard dash--won by D. Hamblett (H); 2, Burdick (Y); 3, Lucke (Y). Time--51 sec. Two-mile run--won by Randall (Y); 2, Livingston (Y); 3. H. Rosenfeld (H). Time--10 min., 11 4/10 sec. 880-yard run--won by T. Withington...
...Later, Jimmy joined Ben Pollack's famed dance band. He and Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them out one night for coming to work in dirty shoes. After his wife left him in 1932 Jimmy went off to the Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...