Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital Industry. In Miami Beach, the National Institute of Diaper Services postponed its annual convention, gave its reason: diapermen were too busy with a "bumper crop of babies...
After a publicity campaign that recalled the gilded '20s, northern France's No. 1 beach resort held its first summer opening in six years. The 10,000-odd visitors, including some 2,000 Britons and a scattering of Americans, saw the-Normandy coast playground as they had seen it on picture postcards-tree-shaded streets, restful, gaily decorated buildings and a placid, dull-green...
...Bastille Day vacation swelled the crowds that plowed up the fine beach, cheered as postwar merveilleuses displayed the world's scantiest bathing suits and vied in U.S.-style beauty contests. At the Bar du Soleil, Englishmen paid 200 francs for a thimbleful of whiskey. At the Hotel Normandy guests paid 1,200 francs for a room. Restaurants charged 200 francs for a dinner of soup, eggs or fish, one vegetable, one peach...
Neglected on the beach was a low, thick-walled building-newly painted a bright yellow, bordered with flower boxes and surmounted by an elegant sign, A la Marquise de Sėvigné (after a famous chain of Paris teashops). Few of the English and French children who bought candy and ice cream there on Bastille Day knew that the building had been a Nazi pillbox...
...Serge Koussevitzky was in his favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costume-grey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoes-made him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg...