Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vince enlisted in the Navy in the spring of 1943 and later that year was a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lansdale, which was sunk off Anzio Beach. In that engagement, he was wounded in both legs...
Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...overlooking the teeming beach was jammed with Sabbath idlers sipping blood-red gazoz, Tel Aviv's favorite syrup-and-soda drink. One youth sat quietly alone, smoking cigarets and drinking thick Turkish coffee. Two men approached his table, murmured "Shalom" (Peace), the traditional Jewish greeting. "Shalom," the youth replied. The two sat down...
With that intuitive flash which frequently strikes cinemagnates, Goldwyn snatched up the phone, called Palm Beach and asked Novelist MacKinlay Kantor to dash off a story treatment. Kantor went right to work, but before he was through, his "treatment" had blossomed into a 268-page novel in free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story...
...infantile paralysis victim in like case has survived more than a year. Last week, attended by his pretty wife Teresa and his three pretty little daughters (Pinkie, 6; Katherine, 3; Mary, 1), he was trundled onto a special railroad car in Chicago for his annual winter trip to Miami Beach...