Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tightlipped, hard-eyed Anthony Cornera Stralla, "admiral" of the Long Beach gambling ship Lux, has lived a life devoted, in a manner of speaking, to public service. He also has great respect for laws, is always trying to keep from breaking them. But for two decades both state and federal officials have been baying after him like bloodhounds, continuously balking his efforts at aiding the masses...
...obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...
...summer season was in full, gay swing last week along the smooth, half-moon beach at swank San Sebastian, official summer playground of Spanish officials and Madrid's diplomatic corps. But while some of Fascist Franco's officials relaxed on the white sand, others renewed their vigilance over the nation's morals...
...there remained on Spain's shores this week one small stretch of sand which Franco's mandatory morality could not govern: the roped-off diplomatic section of the San Sebastian beach. On the edge of this exclusive area, Spaniards leered at diplomatically immune bathers, immodestly stretching out in their soggy suits...
...back-country work, play and superstition the hard way. At home in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, he had grown up like most of the pampered sons of rich sugar growers. He threw around his father's money, traveled in Europe, killed time with other playboys on Copacabana beach. A precocious talent made him a fashionable magazine illustrator before...